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Evaluation Before Encounter: Why Young Catholic Men and Women Are Struggling to Connect

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Many young adults, along with Catholic speakers and ministry leaders, say the result is a widening gap in perception between men and women who share many of the same values but often experience modern dating in strikingly different ways.

Many young Catholics describe dating experiences that feel shaped by expectations, fears and assumptions that leave both sides feeling misunderstood.

Why Pope Leo Quoted Tolkien’s Gandalf

Pope Leo XIV and The Lord of the Rings film set near Matamata, New Zealand.

COMMENTARY: Anyone who sees the world through the Eucharist, as Tolkien and Pope Leo do, will judge AI not by its power but by its service to the human person.

Popes and the Sacred Heart: A Timeline

A 19th-century statue of the Sacred Heart in Paris

For more than a century and a half, popes have taught the importance of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Here are some highlights.

At Rest With Jesus in the City That Never Sleeps

Cardinal Timothy Dolan blesses the faithful with the Blessed Sacrament at Divine Mercy Adoration Chapel on July 30, 2023, at St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village.

‘God’s the only load-bearing structure for your heart,’ says Dominican Father Jonah Teller, of the divine tug toward prayer in Manhattan.