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The African Saint Who Made an American Pope and an American Civil Rights Hero
Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington on Augustine’s feast. Leo XIV called himself Augustine’s son from the loggia. Both men, like the saint…
Aug 29
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Christianity Isn’t Spa Therapy
Pope Leo XIV told the crowds in St. Peter’s Square this morning that faith is not given to us once and for all. Peter’s successor spent his Angelus on…
Aug 23
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The Woman Who Would Not Leave
Pope Francis said that God does not resist when he is prayed to. Today’s Gospel puts a mother outside the boundary and lets her prove it, one refusal at…
Aug 17
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“Our True Beauty Does Not Lie in Hiding the Signs of Aging” — Pope Leo XIV’s Answer to Bryan Johnson
Johnson has built a movement that’s trying to live forever through science, and he says he has done more against death in two years than Jesus managed…
Aug 15
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Is Hope Even More Important Than Faith?
Pope Leo XIV said this morning that the Lord’s presence changes everything. Peter’s faith gave out a few steps from the boat, and what carried him is…
Aug 9
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“It Is Good That We Are Here” — Peter and Jesus’s Command to Move
Forty days before the Church exalts the cross, the Gospel takes us up Mount Tabor. In Assisi this morning, Pope Leo XIV showed 2,500 young pilgrims why…
Aug 7
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God Gets Caught Up in Our Chaos
In John’s telling a boy handed over five barley loaves, and God stretched that child’s inch into a mile. Someone near you is carrying a mess that would…
Aug 2
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Christians Never Retire
Pope Leo said this morning that once you find the pearl, selling everything registers as gain rather than sacrifice. Today’s Gospel is filled with…
Jul 26
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“Run Like Mary Magdalene” — Pope Leo XIV’s Vision for Women in the Church
Gregory the Great turned her into a prostitute with one sermon. Fourteen centuries later, Pope Francis handed her an apostle’s feast — and from what I…
Jul 23
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God Is in Love with Our Smallness
Most parishes skip the one line that unlocks today’s Gospel. Pope Leo, preaching this morning at Castel Gandolfo, says God’s love makes itself felt even…
Jul 19
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God Is Not a Careful Farmer
Pope Leo XIV preached the Parable of the Sower this morning at Castel Gandolfo, naming a God who wastes seed on rock and thorn. Van Gogh painted that…
Jul 12
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God’s Vocation is Recreation
Even the pope is packing for Castel Gandolfo this month. Sunday’s Gospel offers rest to everyone who has grown tired of trying to earn what God already…
Jul 6
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