5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1082+ words) Donald Trump presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the family of Welles Crowther on Tuesday, standing on the Ellipse beside a 21-foot steel beam pulled from the South Tower, with Welles’s mother, Alison, and his sister Paige accepting on…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1045+ words) Cardinal Robert McElroy stood in the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on Sunday, Sept. 6, and told a congregation of union members and parishioners that “no one intrinsically owns anything.” The Catholic Labor Network and the Archdiocese…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1217+ words) Wendell Berry died Monday at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky. He was 92. For sixty-one years he farmed the same hillside above the Kentucky River, and from that hillside he wrote more than fifty volumes of poems, novels, and essays....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (754+ words) Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Tuesday evening at a garden altar inside the papal grounds at Castel Gandolfo, opening the Season of Creation on the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. The homily was short, and…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (493+ words) Letters from Leo is open to anyone who wants to be informed and inspired by our pope — and to turn that inspiration into action that leaves America and the world more just, less cold, and more alive with hope. Subscribe…...