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KANSAS CATHOLIC PRIEST DIES AFTER BEING SHOT AT HIS CHURCH’S RECTORY, LEAVING PARISH IN ‘STATE OF SHOCK’
Gary Hermesch, 66, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon following the attack on Father Arul Carasala, 57, at the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Seneca, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Hermesch was detained on suspicion of first-degree murder…READ MORE >
MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES HAVE ASKED TO NEGOTIATE WITH TRUMP ON TARIFFS, ADMIN OFFICIALS SAY
Foreign nations are lining up to strike a deal with the United States, top administration officials said on Sunday, after President Donald Trump unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariffs last week. During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” White House National Economic…READ MORE >
2,400+ HATE CRIMES WERE COMMITTED AGAINST EUROPEAN CHRISTIANS IN 2023: REPORT
According to a 2024 report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC), 2,444 hate crimes targeting Christians were recorded in 35 European countries in 2023. Almost half of these attacks occurred in France, with anti-Christian crimes also significantly increasing in the U.K. and Germany. The attacks ranged from harassment and threats to physical violence…READ MORE >
POPE FRANCIS MAKES APPEARANCE AT JUBILEE OF SICK, REFLECTS ON OWN ILLNESS, SICKBED AS A HOLY PLACE
Wearing nasal cannulas that provide supplemental oxygen, Pope Francis arrived in a wheelchair accompanied by a nurse. According to Vatican officials, before greeting the faithful, the Pontiff ‘received the sacrament of reconciliation in St. Peter’s Basilica, prayed, and passed through the Holy Door.’…READ MORE >
OPINION: NAVIGATING OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD re you a tech optimist or pessimist? Do you think our advancing technology—in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, and space technology—will make our world better or worse? And do you think the new technologies of the last two centuries have more helped or harmed…READ MORE >
IT’S TIME FOR A RENAISSANCE OF EXCELLENCE IN CATHOLIC LITURGY
Observers point to many serious problems: the decline in marriage and the impending demographic crisis; the parallel decline in young people accepting the call to priesthood and the religious life; ever growing family fragmentation; lingering fallout from revelations of clergy sexual abuse of decades ago…READ MORE >
SPAIN: CARDINAL’S ROLE IN EFFORT TO ‘RESIGNIFY’ FRANCO ERA WAR MONUMENT SPARKS CONTROVERSY
In a statement published by the Archdiocese of Madrid, Cardinal José Cobo defended his role as an interlocutor between the Vatican and the Spanish government in the process of resignifying the Valley of the Fallen, a massive monument dedicated to both sides of the Spanish Civil War….READ MORE >
THE LOSERS AND WINNERS OF TRUMP’S ‘LIBERATION DAY’ TARIFF PLAN
“American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen,” Trump said from the White House Rose Garden last Wednesday afternoon in his announcement. “We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once-beautiful American dream….READ MORE >
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