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What Blessed Fulton Sheen Taught Me About Prayer

Families pose in front of a cardboard cutout of Blessed Fulton Sheen hours before the beatification Mass at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis.

A week spent following the life of Fulton Sheen left me thinking less about his fame and more about the discipline of prayer.

Vatican Nuncio to German Bishops: Pope and Eucharist Prevent a ‘Christian-Flavored NGO’

Deutsche Bischofskonferenz
Archbishop Hubertus van Megen, apostolic nuncio to Germany, listens during a Mass for the German bishops’ conference autumn plenary assembly at St. Michael’s Church in Fulda on Sept. 29, 2026.

In his first address to the German bishops’ plenary, Archbishop Hubertus van Megen said that no local Church outranks another.

Pope Leo Pens a Letter to the White Sox Ahead of Their World Series Quest

Courtesy photo/Filippe Montseforte
(L-R) The Sept. 9, 2026, letter by Pope Leo XIV alongside Leo wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball team cap as he meets newlywed couples during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 11, 2025.

The world-famous baseball fan offered a bit of divine inspiration on the South Side.

Burning Question: Is Smoking Making a Comeback Among Gen Z Catholics?

Smoking holds a particular place in the Catholic imagination and recent trends show Gen-Z Catholics are lighting up.

While tobacco remains as risky as ever and its use is declining nationwide, some young Catholics are showing interest in its social and cultural place.

A Terrible Coarsening

It is important for thoughtful citizens to recognize what the anti-culture of euphemism has done to our country.

COMMENTARY: ‘Reproductive health’ and ‘reproductive freedom’ always will be euphemisms deployed to hide the truth of what happens in an abortion.