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Conservatives Attack Pope Leo XIV’s Newest Black Bishop, Robert Boxie, for Calling Out Racism
Pope Leo made Robert Boxie the first African American bishop ordained in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Within hours, Calvin Robinson and a swarm of…
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How 9/11 Got Francis Elected Pope
Cardinal Egan left the 2001 Synod of Bishops to bury New York’s dead, and John Paul II gave his chair to Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the feast of St…
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, America Needs a 9/12 Generation
I am writing from a bench above lower Manhattan as dusk turns to night, and I have never heard New York this quiet. Here is why I filled your inbox all…
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“They Were Falling Into the Arms of God” — A Catholic Defense of the 9/11 Jumpers
At least 200 people jumped from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and America agreed to look away. A Church that hangs the crucifixion over…
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Ten Days After 9/11, Future American Pope Warned Against Seeking Revenge
Ten days after the towers fell, the new prior general preached at Santa Maria del Popolo that hatred grows where 24,000 people die of hunger every day…
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George W. Bush Defended Islam After 9/11. Catholics Should Too.
Six days after the towers fell, a Republican president walked into a Washington mosque and said “Islam is peace.” Twenty-five years later, Pope Leo XIV…
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Biden, Mamdani, and Hochul Join Archbishop Hicks’s 9/11 Mass After Trump and Vance Decline
The White House declined the invitation from Pope Leo XIV’s new archbishop of New York. I interviewed both Mamdani and Biden, who told me his health is…
Sep 11
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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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Invited by Pope Leo XIV’s New Archbishop, Mamdani Will Attend 9/11 Memorial Mass
Three sources say the mayor will join Archbishop Hicks at St. Patrick’s Thursday and stay for the reception. The Catholic League boss who wants him gone…
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Lay Catholics Should Be Partisans. Bishops and Priests Should Not.
In response to my Barron piece, two clerics I respect called me a partisan Democrat. Guilty. The Second Vatican Council makes it clear: lay people…
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Welles Crowther, the Man in the Red Bandana, Showed the World What Christian Empathy Looks Like
The Man in the Red Bandana saved as many as 18 people on 9/11 and was honored with the Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. Pope Leo XIV calls empathy a call…
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“Jesus Didn’t Say Have Empathy” — Bishop Barron Contradicts Pope Leo XIV in Latest MAGA Crusade
Four months after Pope Leo XIV called empathy “a call from God,” the Bishop of Winona-Rochester told 3.6 million subscribers it threatens truth…
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