Day: May 12, 2025

When the French Cardinal stood on the loggia over St. Peter’s Square and the name “Leo XIV” was announced, the Church and the world learned something unprecedented: the successor of Peter hailed from Chicago. In choosing the name Leo—rich with historical resonance—and bringing with him the formation of a distinctly American, urban, and immigrant-rooted Catholicism,…

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Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Mt. 19:14) My son is a sweet, kind two-and-a-half-year-old who loves going to church, especially Holy Mass. He asks multiple times a week if he can go. When he is told…

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Reading I Acts 11:1-18 The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.  So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him, saying, ‘You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.”  Peter began and explained it to them…

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the “Regina Coeli” prayer and urged all Catholics to pray for vocations, especially to the priesthood and religious life.  Members of a band from Mexico march into St. Peter’s Square at…

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