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The Answer to Our Culture of Narcissism

Matthias Stom, “The Adoration of the Shepherds,” ca. 1650 (Turin)

COMMENTARY: Christmastide offers a profound rebuttal to a culture increasingly shaped by self-absorption, reminding us that we learn who we are only by being loved.

Looking at Venezuela Through a Catholic Lens

APHOTOGRAFIA
A woman holds a portrait of Nicolás Maduro at a rally in San Salvador, El Salvador, following the announcement that he had been captured in Caracas after a U.S.-led military operation.

COMMENTARY: Truth matters, means matter and human beings are never mere instruments — not even when the target is guilty and the temptation to ‘finally do something’ is overwhelming.

The Extraordinary Consistory — What’s in Store?

Daniel Ibáñez
Cardinals attend the ordinary public consistory for the creation of new cardinals, Dec. 7, 2024.

Curial reform, synodality, and liturgy are on the agenda in the first such gathering of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate

Ethicists Warn About the Dangers of Linking Assisted Suicide to Organ Donation

Shakirov Albert
'If society promotes the idea that you can regain value by volunteering to die,' Dr. E. Wesley Ely, a former medical director of lung transplantation, told the Register, 'we’ll create a suicide pipeline.'

Medically assisted suicide is gaining a foothold in the U.S. at a time when the current organ-donation system in the United States is on the defensive in the wake of published reports of abuses.

‘Come to the Stable’ Any Day of the Year

‘Come to the Stable’ stars, l to r, Elsa Lanchester, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young.

Heartwarming film reminds viewers of what kindness paired with unwavering trust and faith can accomplish.