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Cardinal Invites Young People to ‘Farm Aura’ With Christ

Under the Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s 'Slang and Trending' category, aura farming means 'the act of doing something to look cool, impressive, stylish, etc.'

Archbishop Fernando Chomali of Santiago, Chile, took the opportunity to reference a trend among Latin American youth to redirect their ambitions in life from looking cool to serving Christ with joy.

China Pressured a US Catholic Group to Censor Its Keynote Speaker. They Complied.

Andrew Hancock
Fenggang Yang, a professor of sociology at Purdue University and director of its Center on Religion and Chinese Society, is the author of ‘Religion in China: Survival and Revival Under Communist Rule.’

Emails obtained by the Register show that the US-China Catholic Association canceled a prominent professor’s keynote address after Chinese government officials requested his removal from the conference program.

Hope for Broken Marriages: One Couple’s Story

Harold Figueras and Mariela Villanueva.

Starting out their marriage without God at the center, the couple became estranged and the husband left, but things began to change when their daughter asked her mom, “Teach me to pray.”

PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Takes Part in Historic Marian Procession on Lake Albano at Papal Summer House

Pope Leo XIV travels across Lake Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Aug. 29, 2026. Leo took part in a Marian procession on the lake, becoming the first pope to travel by boat across the waters there according to the Vatican.

The Holy Father was the first pope to travel across the waters of the lake in the 400-year-long history of Castel Gandolfo as a papal summer residence, according to the Vatican.