9+ hour, 23+ min ago   (346+ words) The Gospel this week turns on two words in the middle of a parable, and most of us read straight past them. Jesus says the king was moved with compassion, and the Greek verb underneath that phrase is built from…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1215+ words) I was honored to be inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening for the Memorial Mass marking twenty-five years since September 11, which Archbishop Ronald Hicks celebrated for the families of the dead, the uniformed services, and the civic leaders of…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1325+ words) According to three independent sources, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will attend the Archdiocese of New York’s 25th-anniversary Mass for the victims of September 11 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening, along with the reception connected to it. Archbishop Ronald Hicks will…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1382+ words) On Tuesday, I published an essay arguing that Bishop Robert Barron contradicted Pope Leo XIV on empathy in the service of a MAGA culture war. By Wednesday morning, two clerics I respect had answered me on X, and their answer…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1047+ words) Every time I stand in Lower Manhattan, or look across the water at it, I think about the morning of September 11, 2001. It happens whether I want it to or not. This Friday marks twenty-five years since that morning. I was…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (653+ words) Last August I wrote that Catholics in MAGA country had become the most visible, organized counterweight to Donald Trump’s ICE raids, and I counted six red states to prove it. Dan Merica of The Washington Post had asked me why....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1254+ words) JD Vance defended Donald Trump’s mockery of Christ on Monday. Asked by the evangelical podcaster Bryce Crawford about the April image of the president in white and red robes, a glowing hand extended over a sick man as four figures…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (376+ words) Today’s Scripture reflection is about St. Augustine, whose feast the Church keeps today, and about the two men who claim their heritage from him: the one who marched on Washington for civil rights, jobs, and justice on his feast day…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago   (621+ words) From the outset of this project, I have said consistently that Letters from Leo is not a political-first movement. We are formed in the faith of the apostles, and the Sunday Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1602+ words) Pope Leo XIV courageously returned to the suffering of Palestinians in the West Bank this week, even as MAGA figures in the United States and Israeli voices attack him for doing it. He keeps speaking a basic moral truth: people…...