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‘O Sacred Banquet’: A New Book Inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas’ Eucharistic Prayer

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Mary’s ‘Yes’ in the Age of AI: The Marian Heart of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’

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Speaking Truth to Power: When the Pope Addresses Governments

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Pope Leo XIV Says Care for Creation Is a Requirement of Faith

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Pope Leo XIV Defends Journalism Against the Drug of ‘Fake News’

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Bitter Victory or Sweet Defeat in the Middle East, But Whose?

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Smartphones and Fertility: Studies Suggest a Link — and Complex Implications

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USCCB calls on EPA to revise proposed coal-ash rules (USCCB)

The general counsel of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined by the conference’s solicitor and assistant general counsel, called upon the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its proposed revisions to coal-ash regulations.

“The USCCB respectfully urges the EPA to ensure that the flexible approach envisioned by the proposed rule does not come at the expense of the most vulnerable or the integrity of the environment,” the attorneys wrote in their public comments, dated June 8 and posted on the bishops’ website on June 15. “Where the EPA’s proposed rule increases the probability of harm to the common good or to the environment, the EPA should at a minimum retain the relevant restrictions until it fashions new rules that will not unjustifiably increase risk.”

Amid poverty, be missionaries: papal message to Italian pilgrims (Vatican News (Italian))

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, sent a message in Pope Leo’s name to the Bishop Nazareno Marconi of Macerata, Italy, the starting point of the 48th annual 17-mile walking pilgrimage to Loreto.

“Pope Leo is pleased to send his warm greetings to all those taking part in the walking pilgrimage from Macerata to the Holy House of Loreto, urging them to grow in their journey of following Jesus and to be missionaries of the Gospel, especially in the face of the material and spiritual poverty of our times,” Cardinal Parolin wrote.

The pilgrimage, which attracts thousands each year, is organized by the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. This year’s pilgrimage, which began on June 13 and concluded the following day, included a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the vicar general of Rome.