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Where Creation Inspires

By Kathleen Butler Every summer, I take time to recharge my batteries, and this year, reading Joe Paprocki’s book, 8 Steps to Energize Your Faith, was exactly what I needed. Reflec...

Living Legends in the Lecture Hall: Tell Us About Your Favorite Catholic Professor!

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“A Pathway Toward Healing and Hope”: Praying with the Beloved Apostle

Back in January, I was invited to lead a day-long workshop for Catholic school leaders in the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon. The topic that I was asked to address was “Catholic e...

The Leo Chronicles: A Blues Brother

The Leo Chronicles: Pope Leo shows off some Chicago style.

Teaching Mark’s Gospel and Peter’s Letters at Youth Group (Webinar Replay)

As the school year speeds into view, youth ministers everywhere are busily making plans for the fall semester—including what you’ll teach students from the Bible. The post Teachin...

'Bible in a Year' podcast announces upcoming 'Family Edition' with Black Catholic priest Josh Johnson

A new podcast encouraging biblical literacy for youth is set to launch in 2027 with one of the nation's most prominent young Black Catholic priests.

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Pope Leo XIV’s Summer Catechesis: Understanding the Sacred Liturgy

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A Great Teacher and a Welcome Manifesto

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Bring Your Loaves and Fishes to Jesus

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You're A Shepherd First

I get it. I’ve been there. Some days, you’re trading out one hat for another as you prepare for the events ahead. Whether you’re wearing the pizza party hat for the senior girls, t...

Teach Us to Pray: An 8-Day Walk through the Lord's Prayer

Teach Us to Pray: An 8-Day Walk through the Lord's Prayer

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I Made Pope Leo’s Mom’s ‘Messy Josephs’ Recipe — and Why I Appreciate St. Martha

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World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

The Sunday Paper #614 July 19, 2026 I arrived in Taos, NM yesterday for the 2026 Taos Paper Retreat. I’ll be setting up today with my trustworthy partner in crime, artist Jaime Kni...

‘Tu es Petrus’: The Papacy as Instituted by Christ

Over the course of her two-thousand-year history, there have always been controversies and heresies within the Catholic Church. One of these is defiance and disobedience towards th...

Chris Farley’s Catholic Faith: The Real Matt Foley, Mass, and Unknown Works of Mercy

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Pope Leo XIV Points to St. John Henry Newman As a Model for Education Today

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Pope Leo once impersonated a Blues Brother. Now, he's met the real thing.

Renowned saxophonist "Blue Lou" Marini, who was part of the Blues Brothers band, gave Pope Leo XIV a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses similar to a pair Leo sported as a young seminarian,...

Vatican II and the Young Catholic

James Keating, The Fourth Watch In my last Fourth Watch, which treated the controversy over the SSPX, ended with the claim that the problem it raises for the wider Church goes...

St. Francis and the Love for All Creation

There is a reason why the Jesuit Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, upon being elected pope, took the name of Francis of Assisi as his “guide and inspiration.” As his many writings...