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“Hello, Saint”
Pope Leo XIV said this morning that holiness is a vocation for every one of us. A Jesuit at Xavier used to tell me so every time he said hello.
Nov 1
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Justice Is the Least That Love Asks
Pope Leo XIV told St. Peter’s Square this morning that love for God has to overflow into love for our neighbor. Nine days before the election, today’s…
Oct 25
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Christopher Hale
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Whose Image Do You Carry?
Less than a day after leaving the hospital, Pope Leo XIV came to the window this morning and preached on Caesar’s coin. Sixteen days before the…
Oct 25
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Christopher Hale
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Bad and Good Alike, Everyone Is Called to the Party
Minutes before announcing his lung surgery, Pope Leo XIV preached on a king who refuses to cancel the wedding. In 2013, Francis warned against…
Oct 12
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Christopher Hale
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“Don’t Forget the Poor”
The saint who gave back his inheritance, and the cardinal who made sure Pope Francis never forgot him.
Oct 4
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Christopher Hale
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God Would Rather Hear Your Honest Doubts
At Lourdes this morning, Pope Leo XIV told 150,000 pilgrims to repent “today, not tomorrow.” In today’s parable, the son who told his father no still…
Sep 28
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Christopher Hale
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Christianity Is a Last-Place Religion
Pope Leo XIV said this morning that the landowner in today’s parable wanted the men hired at dawn to watch him pay the last man first. The question he…
Sep 21
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Christopher Hale
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Empathy Isn’t Optional For Christians
Pope Leo XIV told St. Peter’s Square on Sunday that forgiveness is indispensable, then turned to the 9/11 anniversary. Jesus says what happens to the…
Sep 14
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Christopher Hale
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Are We Seeking Converts or Punishing Heretics?
Pope Francis said the Church has always stood between two ways of thinking, fearing to lose the saved or wanting to save the lost. Today’s Gospel…
Sep 6
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Christopher Hale
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A Good Christian Is a Good Shortstop
Peter falls from rock of the Church to stumbling block in five verses, and Jeremiah accuses God of duping him. When God hits the ball the other way, the…
Aug 30
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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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Christopher Hale
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