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

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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 baseball fan offered a bit of divine inspiration on the South Side.

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

A priest smokes a cigarette in Vatican Square. 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.

Is Your Faith Losing Its Fire?

Georges de la Tour, “Magdalene with the Smoking Flame” (c. 1640), Louvre, Paris

COMMENTARY: The remedy to lukewarmness is to return to the fire, not to seek a cooler corner of the room.

About 3,000 People Gather in Washington, DC, for Rosary Pilgrimage

Clergy and Dominican friars process down the center aisle with a statue of Mary and the infant Jesus as standing pilgrims watch at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026.

The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph hosted the Sept. 26 event.

An Inconvenient Minority

Alberto Fernandez
Ernst Roets, executive director of Lex Libertas and an organizer of the White Cross Project Conference, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 25.

COMMENTARY: There are convenient or useful minorities — and then there are those that many in the world seem to wish away, such as the Afrikaners.