Pope Francis pleaded for peace worldwide amid ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, telling CBS News on Wednesday that "a negotiated peace is better than a war without end." "Please. Countries at war, all of them, stop the war. Look to negotiate. Look for peace," the pope, speaking through a translator, told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell during an hourlong interview at the guest house where he lives in Rome ..read more

Carmelite nuns at a Texas monastery say they will not accept the Vatican’s designation of a U.S. Carmelite federation to oversee them, amid an ongoing dispute with their local bishop ..read more

In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that He is the true vine that God intended Israel to be, the source of divine life and wisdom for the nations (see Sirach 24:17–24). In Baptism, each of us was joined to Him by the Holy Spirit. As a branch grows from a tree, our souls are to draw life from Him, nourished by His word and the Eucharist. Paul in today’s First Reading seeks to be grafted onto the visible expression of Christ the true vine ..read more

I’m so blessed to have Dr. Peter Malinoski back on the show to chat about this. We chat about some fascinating questions, such as how do we tell the difference between the truth and a conspiracy? Does it really matter, meaning, is it on us to figure out what's going on behind the scenes? How do we not fall into the sin of trying to be omniscient? Is doomsday prepping good, or can people take it too far? Is Christianity a conspiracy theory ..read more

Father Justin, we hardly knew ye.Less than two days after debuting an artificial intelligence (AI) priest character to overwhelmingly negative reviews, Catholic Answers has given “Father Justin” the virtual heave-ho.The lay-run apologetics and evangelization apostolate, based in El Cajon, California, told the Register that it will replace him on its app with a lay character named “Justin” within a week ..read more

Since you have no intention of denying any rightful moral or professional claims to your gender-confused colleagues, signing such a document should pose no problems. But since you are dealing with the whole area of gender ideology, you will likely be expected to “respect” false claims. If there were no bad consequences of refusing to sign the non-discrimination policy, you should refuse ..read more

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is putting the finishing touches to a new document that sets out clear rules on discerning apparitions and other such supernatural events. The dicastery’s prefect, Cardinal Victor Fernández, told the Register April 23 that he and his staff are “in the process of finalizing a new text with clear guidelines and norms for the discernment of apparitions and other phenomena ..read more

Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself. Take, for example, a human running on top of a moving train. For starters, you can't be sure it's real. In early Westerns, they used moving backdrops to make fake trains look like they were in motion. Now there's CGI. Or they might speed the film up to make a real train look faster than it really is ..read more

Xavier University’s health insurance plan not only appears to cover abortion – it looks like the school specifically added it into the coverage.But the Catholic Cincinatti university denies its student health insurance plan covers abortion.A “policy endorsement” on the plan appeared to delete an “exclusion” of abortion ..read more

Taking chastity seriously requires a belief that communion with God, life in Christ, and holiness are more important than our desires, our inner turmoils, and our existential crises—and, in fact, that they fulfill those desires, calm those turmoils, and solve our crises. In short, the answer to the Reign of Gay and Tyranny of Trans is to accept and embrace the Kingdom of Christ in our hearts and minds ..read more