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Read more: The historic pontificate of Pope Leo XIV

‘It is finished’: Christ showed God’s incomprehensible love by dying on the cross

by Father James Dominic Brent

It was not enough for God to give us the world. In his love and mercy, God wanted to give us something more.

As justices consider birthright citizenship, displaced mom says her US-born child ‘should belong’
Pro-life leaders condemn White House extending Title X grants to Planned Parenthood
Everyone has Good Fridays but ‘we also all have Easter Sunday,’ Cardinal Dolan tells inmates
‘Hopefully he’s looking for an off-ramp’: Pope Leo XIV shares message for Trump amid escalating Middle East war
‘With all my heart I want to say how sorry we are,’ says Albany bishop as abuse settlement reached
Pope Leo XIV to carry cross at all 14 stations of Colosseum Way of the Cross on Good Friday

U.S. Church

Supreme Court backs challenge to Colorado conversion therapy ban

by Kate Scanlon

The ruling sent the law back to the lower courts, saying the lower courts previously “erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.”

Catholic Charities USA’s traveling museum ‘celebrates power of Christian service’

7,000 show up in faith, prayer for Palm Sunday Path on lawn of Minnesota State Capitol

Wisconsin priest faces new charges for child sex abuse material

Catholics express grief, warn of politicizing immigration issue in murder of Loyola student

Missouri bishops back amendment to limit abortion and gender transition for minors

Boston bishop ‘honored’ to be named rector of seminary, ‘the heart of the diocese it serves’

World

Pope’s Palm Sunday peace appeal backed by Dalai Lama amid escalation of war

by Paulina Guzik

(OSV News) — After Pope Leo XIV issued one of his strongest appeals to-date to lay down weapons and reject war in his Palm Sunday homily, the spiritual …

‘Like Jesus on the cross’: Priest abused in his youth asks Lord to forgive lay perpetrator
Cardinal Roche: Selflessness of Pedro Ballester is a witness for today’s youth
French Church gives ‘best to the poorest’ in landmark Paris architectural project
Georgetown’s Qatar campus remains closed as Iran threatens US schools in region
Gaza Christians mark Palm Sunday with hope amid ongoing hardships

Israel to allow Church leaders to celebrate Holy Week, Easter at holy sites, Latin patriarchate says

Jerusalem Church leaders decry ‘expanding wreckage’ of Iran war

Israeli police prevent Latin patriarch, custos, from entering Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday

Vatican

Pope Leo XIV introduces changes in Secretariat of State leadership

by Junno Arocho Esteves

Opinion

A saint’s final footsteps

by Octavio Duran, OFM

Guarding the heart and home: Raising holy families in a screen-saturated world

by Sister Nancy Usselmann

St. Patrick’s Breastplate and the terrors of mid-Lent

by Elizabeth Scalia

Reviews

St. Francis of Assisi in film

by John Mulderig
Looking for a Holy Week read? Updated book explores ‘What Christ Suffered’
Meet the Catholic filmmaker behind a new series on ‘Women of the Bible’
‘The Optimist’ tells story of Holocaust survivor helped by Catholic family
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