Jeanie Hannaman

By Andrew Likoudis, National Catholic Register - Across the country, a growing number of sacred music apostolates are rediscovering this ancient vocation, using beauty to draw hearts toward God... St. John Paul II, in his 1999 “Letter to Artists,” affirmed this essential missionary function: “The link between good and beautiful stirs fruitful reflection. In a certain sense, beauty is the visible form of the good, just as the good is the metaphysical condition of beauty.”

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - In June of 1577, an Englishman by the name of Cuthbert Mayne was taken under arrest by the High Sheriff of Cornwall and imprisoned in Launceston Castle to await trial for high treason. Mayne was born in Devon, in southwest England, and had been a Protestant cleric as a young man. But during his subsequent studies at Oxford, he converted to Catholicism.

By Edward Feser, UnHerd - The Catholic Church is on a collision course with the Trump administration. And likewise with governments across the developed world that are tightening their borders and carrying out — or at least, threatening — mass deportations of illegal immigrants. In an address on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV denounced “inhuman measures” and “serious crimes” against migrants, even as he granted that “states have the right and duty to protect their borders.”