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"Being rooted in faith is what leads us to be resilient," said the president of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament on Xavier’s Founder’s Day.

Preparing for ICE agents' presence in the city, an interfaith coalition shared best practices for dealing with law enforcement at houses of worship.

But not all schools that attract traditionalist students are avoiding financial challenges or the demographic cliff of fewer college-bound students after Generation Z. 

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, said in a statement Wednesday (Dec. 3) that an order to kill survivors of an attack by U.S. forces on a boat in the Caribbean would be wrong if they posed no immediate danger to those forces.

Many Catholic university leaders are trying to thread the needle between staying under the Trump administration’s radar and framing their work with marginalized students as grounded in their Catholic identities.

Just 63% of Catholic higher education institutions have theology or religious studies departments, down from 69% in 2016.

"We live in a world where religion is too often used to justify wars and atrocities," the pope said.

Kate Hennessy, the Catholic Worker co-founder's granddaughter, said Day is a model for her fellow believers "to grasp faith and trust with all we have, even if it is by our bleeding fingertips."

The stories of holy encounter in İznik and across Türkiye need to be told more often.

"This first international trip will be a very public test of Leo's papacy," writes Fr. Thomas Reese. "I don't expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out. A base hit will be a win."

Though President Donald Trump's gains with Hispanic Christians were a crucial part of his winning coalition in the 2024 election, those gains are showing signs of eroding. A year after the election, a majority of Latino Catholics and Protestants have mostly negative views on Trump's job so far as president, especially when it comes to his immigration policies.

Rumors and viral reports about potential ICE raids have immigrant church leaders worried about their congregations. DHS says it doesn’t have plans to raid churches — but won't rule it out.

As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.

Westley S. is a 22-year-old fan of the show from Arizona who was baptized into the Catholic Church in April and is a part of a Groyper Reddit group. Westley said his immigration views align more closely with Fuentes' than with the Vatican's. "I don't support Pope Leo's outspokenness on being pro-immigration," Westley said.

"I'm seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what's happening at Broadview in Chicago," the Rev. David Black said.

Magisterium AI's programmers and bots seem to look for documents it likes and to ignore those it does not.

America has become less religious because white Americans are less religious. Most recent immigrants are religious, and many are Christians.

In his first speech from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV took the opportunity to endorse synodality, signaling that this cornerstone theological idea of Pope Francis' papacy would continue to guide the Catholic Church. With Leo's backing, Catholic leaders in the pope's home country have wasted no time in implementing its practical applications.

"The Scripture teaches us that person is revealing to me the face of Christ. And so, how am I treating Jesus? How am I not abandoning this person in their time of loss?"