Pope Leo XIV will preside over a worldwide rosary for peace May 30, uniting Marian shrines across continents in simultaneous prayer to close the Catholic Church’s month of devotion to the Virgin Mary.
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Farming, even in the best of times, can be a rather precarious vocation. It is dangerous work, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration; it is economically volatile, due to high production costs and fluctuations in market prices; there are climate risks from droughts, floods, and pests.
Anyone who walks into the atrium for the theater at Ursuline Academy of Dallas will most likely encounter the natural light that fills the space.
As the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage continued to make its way up the East Coast, it took a day to encounter Friar Pedro de Corpa and Companions, the five Franciscan friars — also known as the Georgia Martyrs — who will be beatified Oct. 31 in Savannah, Georgia.
Amid renewed tensions between the Vatican and traditionalist Catholics over the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Leo XIV defended Church reform as a legitimate process that adapts to current needs while remaining rooted in authentic tradition.
Under clear blue skies and with a warm wind blowing, Jesus in the Eucharist spent part of Memorial Day on the water traveling from Florida to Georgia as part of the second day of this summer’s National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.
At a time when digital technologies are developing at a rapid and unpredictable pace, every single person must decide if she or he will be: a passive bystander; an unhelpful commentator; an avaricious architect of a new “Tower of Babel”; or a patient, hope-filled builder of a “civilization of love,” Pope Leo XIV said in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas.”
It is not the accolades received, nor the projects completed, but the community encountered that Patrick Magee treasures most as he prepares to retire his post as president of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School, the longtime administrator said. After more than two decades of leadership at the Dallas school, including more than a dozen years serving as the institution’s first president, Magee is stepping down from the position at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, with Lisa Long set to take up the mantle.
Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence “Magnifica Humanitas” May 25, comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the “Tower of Babel” and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is “threatened by new forms of dehumanization.”
Like a seed that continues to bear fruit, the legacy planted in the Diocese of Dallas by the Missionary Catechists of the Poor was celebrated April 21 at St. Monica Catholic Church.