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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.

Would-Be Attacker of 2025 DC Red Mass Sentenced to 5 Years

On Sept. 28 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced that Geri had been sentenced to 70 months in prison over the incident

Louis Geri had previously pleaded guilty to federal charges after police said his attack was directed specifically at Catholics and Supreme Court justices.

PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV’s Final Day in France

Pope Leo XIV greets the congregation ahead of Mass on Sept. 28, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Metz, France.

On the fourth and final day of his apostolic journey to France, the Pope addressed European leaders at the Robert Schuman Conference Center and celebrated Mass at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Metz.