Read & Reflect

May You Receive Pardon and Peace: 2,000 Teens and the Sacrament of Penance

It is always an honor to volunteer at Catholic conferences and retreats. I have attended and volunteered at many in my life, each leaving me with profound, quiet experiences. This was the first time I was put on a Reconciliation team, and it has been my favorite one by far. At this Catholic teen con...

The Life of a Visionary: “The Sick Person Who Becomes the Monstrance for Christ”

A Visitor from Heaven, Part III: Apparitions in Northern Italy In Part II, I introduced a glimpse into the life of Francesca Sgobbi and her husband Giorgio, marked by the latter’s terminal illness, followed by the former’s pivotal mystical experience. Fr. Jerzy outlined the urgent need to abandon ou...

The Mystery at Pleasant Lake, AI, and the Artist

Recently, I had a coffee with a friend, where our conversation turned to AI and the ways it’s pulling humanity from God. We shared thoughts about how we were trying to remain rooted in what it is to be human in the West’s technocratic autocracy. He spoke of his recent trek through a long stretch of...

How MAiD Is Counted and Not Counted

Euthanasia, Cause of Death, and the Disappearance of the Act The normalization of euthanasia rarely happens all at once. It usually advances by a series of softenings. First the language changes. Suicide becomes “physician-assisted death.” Then it becomes “medical assistance in dying.” Finally it be...

My Experience Helping a Demonically Possessed Person

If there is an area of the Church in which people are starving for answers and in need of assistance, it is the realm of spiritual warfare. As often happens, multiple people came forward in the past week, telling me about their demonic encounters or seeking ways to spiritually defend their families....

Vatican Bank names new director general

The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), also known as the Vatican Bank, has named Giovanni Boscia as its next director general.He will succeed Gian Franco Mammì, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 and has led the IOR’s day-to-day operations since 2015.Boscia, 55, will assume h...

Vatican clarifies pope’s role ‘as universal shepherd’ in wake of US ambassador’s comments

When the pope speaks out on matters of war and peace, is he doing so as a religious authority or a political leader? A U.S. diplomat and a Vatican official recently expressed contrasting views on the question.According to the New York Times last week, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch argu...

Echoing Pope Leo XIV, experts sign Rome declaration on limits for AI and nuclear arms

Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, more than 200 leading academics, innovators, and Nobel laureates signed a declaration in Rome on July 16 calling for responsible AI development and the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.“We must disarm the next arms race, both AI and n...

Pope Leo XIV to attend summer concert at Castel Gandolfo

Pope Leo XIV, who has restored the papal tradition of spending part of the summer at Castel Gandolfo, is set to attend a classical concert there on July 18.The “Concert in Honor of the Holy Father Leo XIV” will take place in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, where he is stayi...

[Daily Rosary Meditations] Our Lady of Mount Carmel

[Daily Rosary Meditations] Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness