The SSPX Rupture With Tradition...
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by Cardinal Victor Fernández, recently hosted the superior general of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Father Davide Pagliarani, to begin an ecclesial dialogue. Sadly, and predictably, the Society, in a Feb. 18 letter to Cardinal Fernández, has rejected the offer of continuing dialogue, claiming it has no hope of success...
Alysa Liu and the Olympic Lesson We Almost Missed...
The Legend of Rattlesnake Kate...
I’ve been thinking this morning about ole Rattlesnake Kate, somewhat of a heroine in my adopted home state. Kate is the kind of Colorado character who makes the Old West wild. She was born in a log cabin in the hot summer of 1893, became a nurse, and married and divorced a bunch of times — some accounts say she attempted marriage five or six times, and none of them took...
Don’t Murmur Against Christ — Proclaim Him with Grace and Joy...
The Word of God provides us with many biblical scenes of irony that leave one to ask, what were they thinking? One such example is Israel’s release from Egyptian bondage, where instead of acknowledging God's gift of freedom, the Israelites chose to murmur against Him the moment they began to endure some form of physical suffering.
Take Back Your Identity...
Who told you who you are? Because if it’s not God, you’ve been listening to the wrong voice. The devil has a very thin playbook. His first move? Attack your identity. He did it in Genesis. He tried it on Jesus in the desert — every single temptation starting with the words, "If you are the Son of God..." He was trying to shake Jesus’ sense of who he was. Because here’s the thing...
Bones of St. Francis of Assisi on Public Display Show Enduring Appeal of Relics...
How Have the Popes Treated the SSPX?
Practical Wisdom for a Happier Life...
Blaise Pascal wrote, “All people seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every person, even of those who hang themselves.”
Lent as Training for Spiritual War — the Great Fight Back...
Adult Baptisms Surge Again in Belgium...
The number of adult baptisms in Belgium is expected to surge again in 2026, after dioceses reported an almost 30% increase in candidates compared to 2025. The Catholic Church in Belgium said Feb. 18 that the number of adults seeking baptism has risen to 689 in 2026, from 534 in 2025. The new figures confirm that Belgium...
Is It Wrong to Sell Things on Platforms That Fund Abortion?
In evaluating questions of moral cooperation, it is essential first to distinguish between formal and material cooperation in another’s wrongdoing. Formal cooperation occurs when one shares in the wrongful intention of the evildoer. In your case, this would arise if you intended that the selling platform use the revenue generated by your participation to support abortion...
Vatican Moves Forward on $85 Million Swiss Guard Barracks Project...
Two Drinks with 94-Year-Old Catholic Psychiatrist Paul McHugh (“Dr. I Told You So”)...
Why the Devil Might Not Mind That You’re Giving Up Chocolate for Lent...
What Cardinal Ouellet Tells Us About Pope Leo and Lay Governance...
Remains of St. Francis to Be Visible for Veneration in Assisi...
Oxford Oratory receives more converts in two months than entire previous year...
Which tree was used to make the cross? Legend and folklore have many strange answers...
A Defense of Scott Hahn and the ‘Hahn School’...
Notre Dame must choose courage...
Vatican offers ‘dialogue’ with SSPX, warns against ordinations...
This Sunday, Jesus Tells Angry Americans What We Need to Change, Right Now...
Former DC United soccer star discusses his return to the Catholic faith...
‘Worthy of God’s Love’: The Powerful Witness of ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star James Van Der Beek...
Might Doesn’t Make Right — or Even Make Sense...
NCRegister Editorial: Notre Dame’s Leaders Are at Odds With Pope Leo...
‘Death Pelicans’ and 8 Other Birds That Will Make You Cherish Your Spot on the Food Chain...
An Atheist’s Argument Against Abortion...
‘Strong Opposition’: Bishop Rhoades Rebukes Notre Dame’s Pro-Abortion Appointment...
Blessed-to-Be Fulton Sheen: Holy Disciple and Church-Changing Apostle...
A Kangaroo Court in Hong Kong: Catholic Businessman Jimmy Lai Gets 20 Years...
The Litany of Humility: How Can I be Freed from the Desire to be Loved?
Leo XIV Reestablishes the Episcopal Hierarchy in Rome...
A set of rumored bishop appointments by Pope Leo XIV may set the tenor for how the Diocese of Rome relates to the See of Peter going forward, potentially digressing from the precedent set by the current Pontiff’s predecessors. Four new auxiliary bishops are expected to be appointed to the Diocese of Rome, following an upcoming meeting between the Pope and the diocesan prelates...
The Tide Is Turning Against Transgender Ideology...
8 Characteristics of a Culture of Lay Formation...
Entering the Desert with Christ this Lent...
The Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent gives us the dramatic scene of Christ entering the desert to do spiritual battle with the devil. This testing in the desert is also the theme for the first episode of Bible Across America Lent 2026, which you can sign up for here. In this blog post, we’ll explore the deeper meaning of Christ’s wilderness showdown with Satan, as well as the encouragement we can draw from His example...
Listen to Him: A Reflection on the Second Sunday of Lent...
Today’s Gospel portrays Jesus as a new and greater Moses. Moses also took three companions up a mountain and on the seventh day was overshadowed by the shining cloud of God’s presence. He too spoke with God, and his face and clothing were made radiant in the encounter (see Exodus 24, 34). But in today’s Lenten Liturgy...
How Have the Popes Treated the SSPX?
Is it time to treat the self-styled “traditionalist” Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in a more traditional manner? The Holy See has attempted for nearly 40 years to accommodate the SSPX with highly untraditional innovations, some of them canonically peculiar, to no avail. Now that the SSPX has confirmed its intention to ordain bishops this summer without the required papal mandate, perhaps a more traditional disciplinary approach would serve the Church...
Bishops Invoke Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Protection as Violence Erupts in Mexico...
Pope Leo’s Sunday Angelus: ‘This Lent, Make Your Life a Unique Masterpiece’...
Love of Life, the Direction of Travel, and the Joy of Aliens...
As many of you, I’m not one for public appearances. The truth is, if you take me outside of my narrowly defined comfort zones, like Pillar events and canon law conferences, I get pretty terrible stage fright. As a result, I tend to send regrets — sincere ones — to most of the occasional invitations I get to speak at one or other kind of event...
Catholic Health Provider Agrees to $42 Million Settlement in Pension Dispute...
Record Ash Wednesday Turnout in France Fuels Hope for Catholic Revival...
What I Learned About Prayer (and Myself) After 1,000 Days on Hallow...
Vatican Turns Down Invitation to Trump’s ‘Board of Peace,’ Says It Was ‘Perplexed’ by Plan...
Pope Leo’s Ash Wednesday Audience: ‘The Liturgy Is an Experience of God’s Unity’...
Tale of Two Adams: A Reflection on the First Sunday of Lent...
How the Easy-Bake Oven, Launched in 1963, Revolutionized the Toy Industry...
What’s the matter with Notre Dame? Failed leadership...
Vatican Expands Visitor Experience at St. Peter's Basilica to Mark 400th Anniversary...
Pope Leo’s Sunday Angelus: True Righteousness Demands Great Love...
Federal Judge Orders Catholic Group to Have Access to ICE Facility on Ash Wednesday...
Perhaps We’re Doomed, Going Viral, and in Training...
Godparenting Is a Spiritual Calling...
Being a Godparent is one of the most frequently misunderstood of Catholic responsibilities. On the one hand, it is not merely a ceremonial nicety for the baptism of a child. On the other hand, it is usually difficult for Godparents to be frequently present in the lives of their Godchildren. Indeed, even when Godparents have been carefully selected by highly-committed Catholic parents...
Christian Smith: ‘Why I’m Done with Notre Dame’...
Two-Thirds of Aborted Babies Lost Their Lives to Abortion Pills, Report Finds...
Pope Leo XIV explains why Catholics fast during Lent...
The ancient practice of fasting from food during Lent can free us from complacency and lead us to “hunger” for God, Pope Leo XIV said in his 2026 Lenten message. Ahead of Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the 40-day liturgical season of Lent, this year on Feb. 18, the pope encouraged people to embrace the “ancient ascetic practice” of abstaining from food...
When Fulton Sheen Was Out of Season...
Pope Leo XIV: ‘The Church Is the Rightful Home of Sacred Scripture’...
Affair of the Heart: A Reflection on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Uncovering Sin and the Path to Christ...
Winter Olympics 2026: What is Olympic ice and how is it made?
Today Is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes — and Pope St. John Paul II’s World Day of the Sick...
Mississippi Diocese Advances Canonization Cause of Sister Thea Bowman...
Your Faithfulness Is Changing the World (Even From Your Living Room)...
It’s Official: After Long Delay, Vatican Gives Green Light for Fulton J. Sheen Beatification...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
- Adrian V (1276)
- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
- St. John Paul II (1978-2005)
- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
- Leo XIV (2025—)
