02/02/2026

Curia spiritual exercises: Leo XIV chooses the Pauline chapel

Leo XIV chooses to hold the spiritual exercises in the Vatican. The first meditation is on Saturday 22 February 2026 at 5 pm, with the conclusion o...

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31/01/2026

Beyond “the attic”: why the Church’s life isn’t clickbait

From the morbid obsession with the Pope’s private life to partisan readings of continuity and rupture: what is at stake is the method - and the tru...

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29/01/2026

CL, the Banna case and the “hearsay” machine: the letters that debunk the blogs and pin the governance to the facts

Fr Pierluigi Banna, the victim of outright defamatory activity carried out by the movement’s governance, is asking for truth and reconciliation. Th...

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27/01/2026

Cardinal Fernández: “On any blog, people condemn as though they were speaking ex cathedra: we must recover the sound realism of the great mystics.”

Fernández opens the Plenary with a call to prayer, listening to the peripheries, and the breadth of perspectives in the magisterium: “no one posses...

26/01/2026

Vance and Trump: the “pro-life” propaganda masking raids, deaths and intimidation

In Minneapolis, the federal hard line and the delegitimisation of those who film have become standard practice; Leo XIVcalls for moral consistency,...

24/01/2026

Communication. Leo XIV warns: “Lack of source verification and the crisis of on-the-ground journalism create fertile ground for disinformation”

By highlighting the work of direct information gathering, the Pope calls the media to professional responsibility and warns that without verificati...

23/01/2026

Luxembourg. The Grand Duke at the Vatican with Leo XIV

Fourth courtesy visit for Guillaume V: after Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, a stop at the Vatican marked by symbolism and the international ...

Catholic Church

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Diocese of New York
21/01/2026

Interview | Archbishop Hicks: “In New York? I want only to lead people to Jesus Christ”

Between a daily Holy Hour and a ministry lived on a global scale, the Archbishop-designate presents himself to New York by placing at the centre sh...

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19/01/2026

Cardinals Cupich, McElroy and Tobin challenge the drift towards bellicosity: US foreign policy judged in the light of the Pope’s words

Cupich, McElroy and Tobin adopt the Magisterium of Leo XIV as a binding criterion: war only as a last resort, the centrality of human life, a clear...

12/01/2026

Monastery, a laboratory of humanity

Monastic life as a concrete form of hope: virginity, communion, a spiritual path, and a culture regenerated by ora et labora.

06/01/2026

That red light in the silence, and a beauty that doesn’t hold the eye

In the silence of St Olav’s Cathedral and amid the flows of the Nidarosdomen, the same question is measured: does art still lead to encounter, or d...

Love the truth;
show yourself as you are, without deceit, without fear, and without favoritism.
And if the truth costs you persecution, accept it;
and if it means torment, endure it.
And if for the truth you must sacrifice yourself and your life, be strong in your sacrifice.

Giuseppe Moscati

30/01/2026

Press freedom? In Italy, one judge seems to think it exists only if you’re part of the club

In a ruling involving a well-known and controversial figure, a judge ends up making the “protections afforded to the press” conditional on being pa...

26/01/2026

Vance and Trump: the “pro-life” propaganda masking raids, deaths and intimidation

In Minneapolis, the federal hard line and the delegitimisation of those who film have become standard practice; Leo XIVcalls for moral consistency,...

21/01/2026

Austen Ivereigh. The attacks on the Pope by the Santa Marta hacks

Without invitations and without access, Ivereigh changes tone: he turns a harmless rite into a scandal and uses Laudato si’ as a pretext to strike ...

17/01/2026

The march and hypocrisy: JD Vance “pro-life” on alternate days

Abortion as a slogan, migrants as a target: on 23 January in Washington, the vice president’s presence lays bare the moral selectivity denounced by...

Vatican City

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02/02/2026

Curia spiritual exercises: Leo XIV chooses the Pauline chapel

Leo XIV chooses to hold the spiritual exercises in the Vatican. The first meditation is on Saturday 22 February 2026 at 5 pm, with the conclusion o...

Read more
31/01/2026

Beyond “the attic”: why the Church’s life isn’t clickbait

From the morbid obsession with the Pope’s private life to partisan readings of continuity and rupture: what is at stake is the method - and the tru...

29/01/2026

CL, the Banna case and the “hearsay” machine: the letters that debunk the blogs and pin the governance to the facts

Fr Pierluigi Banna, the victim of outright defamatory activity carried out by the movement’s governance, is asking for truth and reconciliation. Th...

27/01/2026

Cardinal Fernández: “On any blog, people condemn as though they were speaking ex cathedra: we must recover the sound realism of the great mystics.”

Fernández opens the Plenary with a call to prayer, listening to the peripheries, and the breadth of perspectives in the magisterium: “no one posses...

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