At Lourdes, on the same day he met abuse survivors, Pope Leo XIV said the Church must have the courage to begin with herself.

In a short weekend Morning Keys roundup, Pope Leo XIV urged the Pontifical Teutonic College to preserve unity with the Successor of Peter as an essential mark of Christian witness, and told the ...

A quick note on a schedule change. Morning Keys will now run Monday through Friday. On Mondays it will be a fuller roundup of the weekend, and if something major breaks on a Saturday or Sunday, we ...

Here are the key Catholic stories of the past few days, led by Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France, along with other news and commentary. On Sunday morning in Lourdes he told some 150,000 pilgrims the ...

On September 16, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a new note about interreligious dialogue titled A Journey of Hope: Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in ...

Pope Leo XIV’s general audience on Wednesday clarified something that many conservative and traditionalist Catholics have been unwilling to face: the pope believes both that the liturgical reform is a ...

Nearly three months have passed since the publication of the synod’s final report from Study Group 9, titled “Theological Criteria and Synodal Methodologies for Shared Discernment of Emerging ...

Over the past years, the billionaire Peter Thiel has written and spoken widely – at a four-lecture series in San Francisco in 2025; in an interview with Ross Douthat in the New York Times; perhaps ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterwork The Lord of the Rings has made it into Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — and the reference reads like a veiled rebuke of Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and ...

This is the second in a trio of articles on peace that we are publishing in preparation for tomorrow’s day of prayer. It is a modified version of an article that first appeared on March 5, 2026, in ...

Many sincere Catholics associate kneeling with greater reverence and standing with something less. It’s an understandable instinct. But when we look at how the Church herself has understood these ...

There is no shortage of theories attempting to justify the present state of affairs or to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything.