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The Dangerous Myth of the ‘Completed Life’

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, “Temperance (Detail),” ca. 1338-1340

COMMENTARY: A famous saying — ‘It ain’t over over till it’s over’ — has untapped wisdom and should be recalled and applied to the current debate on euthanasia.

Pope Leo XIV Tells Soldiers: It Is Noble to Defend the Sovereignty of Your Homeland

Pope Leo XIV receives a statue of St. Michael the Archangel from a soldier after his private audience with the Military Ordinariate of Portugal at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Aug. 24, 2026.

The pontiff reflected on military values in a private audience with the Military Ordinariate of Portugal on Aug. 24.

‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ 100 Years Later: Virtues in the 100-Acre Wood

Melissa Hartog/Illustration
The beloved 'Bear of Little Brain' turns 100 this year.

‘Milne never preaches,’ Ashenden reflected. ‘He simply shows us a small world ordered by mercy and lets children grow up half-remembering that this is how the real world ought to be.’

The Battle Against Despair — and a Shrine of Hope

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‘Despair’ / Basilica Notre-Dame des Victoires at Place des Petit peres in Paris

The Catholic Church must prepare for the coming battle of despair — Register contributor Alberto Fernandez explains why. Then EWTN News’ Solène Tadié takes us inside Paris’ other Notre-Dame, a shrine with 37,000 answered prayers.