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The Search for Catholic Community Doesn't Have to End at Sunday Mass

Young adults enjoy Vesper Club’s 'Americana Under the Stars' event in Nashville on Oct. 22, 2026.
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Young adults enjoy Vesper Club’s 'Americana Under the Stars' event in Nashville on Oct. 22, 2026.
In Nashville, Vesper Club is creating a space for young adults to build friendships and community without having to choose between their faith and a social life.

Catholic Ethicists Debate Morality of Embryo Adoption

John Haas, president emeritus of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, argues that embryo adoption is morally illicit during an event at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22, 2026.
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John Haas, president emeritus of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, argues that embryo adoption is morally illicit during an event at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22, 2026.
The 2008 Vatican document Dignitas Personae affirmed the dignity and rights of frozen embryos and expressed reservations about proposals for prenatal adoption.

Catholic Social Scientists Hold Conference Blending Disciplines and Faith

As Father Emmanuel Nanabanyin Conduah, right, looks on, PennWest University Professor Miguel Olivas-Luján, left, delivers his paper “Retiring for Eternity: Planning Based on Social Science and Catholic Social Thought” during the 2025 annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.
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As Father Emmanuel Nanabanyin Conduah, right, looks on, PennWest University Professor Miguel Olivas-Luján, left, delivers his paper “Retiring for Eternity: Planning Based on Social Science and Catholic Social Thought” during the 2025 annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.
Scholars will deliver talks on Catholic teaching in relation to American history, political science, and hot-button issues like artificial intelligence, immigration, and euthanasia.

Pope Leo XIV: True Justice is Never Separated ‘From Truth and Mercy’

Pope Leo XIV holds an audience at the Vatican with participants in an international congress organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical Gregorian University on Oct. 23, 2026.
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Pope Leo XIV holds an audience at the Vatican with participants in an international congress organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical Gregorian University on Oct. 23, 2026.
The pontiff holds a doctorate in canon law, a background that notably shapes his vision of Church governance.