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Pope Leo will visit Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in Nov.

He lived in Peru for decades; bishop of Chiclayo 2015-23

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Atypical surge raises suspicion Moroccan gov't was factor

Study: Half of young men in U.S. feel lonely, isolated

And 44% play video games daily, 42% view porn regularly

Poland: 2 newly identified St. Augustine sermons found

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Outrageous Thoughts on War and Peace

We spent trillions for war while our physical and social infrastructure crumbled, and our families and schools became dysfunctional and our inner cities uninhabitable.

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Pope Leo XIV, His Predecessors & the Death Penalty

Pope Leo seemingly affirms the late Pope Francis's teaching on the death penalty, which some argue is at the very least in error. But is…

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It’s time to admit that the philosophical tools commonly used to understand quantum mechanics — and reality itself — do not work.

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German diocese questions millionaire’s $570 offer

Will pay 500 euros for every baptism, to pay for the party

Pope Leo will visit Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in Nov.

He lived in Peru for decades; bishop of Chiclayo 2015-23

Migrant ‘invasion’ in Ceuta divides Spanish bishops

Atypical surge raises suspicion Moroccan gov't was factor

Study: Half of young men in U.S. feel lonely, isolated

And 44% play video games daily, 42% view porn regularly

Poland: 2 newly identified St. Augustine sermons found

In a 12th-century manuscript in a Polish diocesan library

Mexico, 100 yrs ago: Mass, sacraments were suspended

Bishops aimed to throw off persecution but sparked worse

VIEW ARCHIVE
German diocese questions millionaire’s $570 offer

Will pay 500 euros for every baptism, to pay for the party

Pope Leo will visit Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in Nov.

He lived in Peru for decades; bishop of Chiclayo 2015-23

Migrant ‘invasion’ in Ceuta divides Spanish bishops

Atypical surge raises suspicion Moroccan gov't was factor

Study: Half of young men in U.S. feel lonely, isolated

And 44% play video games daily, 42% view porn regularly

Poland: 2 newly identified St. Augustine sermons found

In a 12th-century manuscript in a Polish diocesan library

Mexico, 100 yrs ago: Mass, sacraments were suspended

Bishops aimed to throw off persecution but sparked worse

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The Opening Prayer for the Eighteenth Sunday (A) in Ordinary Time asks that the Lord “may restore what you have…

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Dowsing: Fraud, Demons, or God?

August 3rd 2026 12:27 PM

Back in the mid-1980s, while working as a resident field engineer for the City of San Diego, I was overseeing…

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On the Nuclear Fault Line

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