Catholic Church

By Courtney Mares, EWTN News - The Italian computer-coding teenager who died of cancer in 2006 is known for his great devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist... The recognition of the second miracle attributed to Acutis’ intercession makes it possible that Acutis could be canonized during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year... In a decree on May 23, Pope Francis approved the miraculous healing of a 21-year-old girl from Costa Rica named Valeria Valverde who was near death after seriously injuring her head in a bicycle accident while studying in Florence in 2022.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Why has Pope Francis not celebrated Mass in public for well over a year? He will frequently “preside” at a Mass... but he has not been the principal celebrant since sometime in mid-2022... The Pope, as foremost representative of the faithful, is called to serve as priest, prophet, and king. The priest comes first. I assume—I hope!—that Pope Francis celebrates Mass in private. But when he celebrates the Eucharistic liturgy in public, he reminds the world that this is the most important thing we do, the source and summit of our spiritual life.

By Larry Chapp, EWTN News - One of the assumptions that seems to animate so many of the conversations surrounding a more synodal Church is that a more “democratized” Catholic Church is by definition a better Church. To that end, we saw in last year’s Synod on Synodality that there was a lot of chatter about a Church that listens to “the people of God.”... I think that this conflation is incorrect and that the “people of God” metaphor, used in Lumen Gentium, when properly understood not only does not endorse a more democratic Church but actually implies the opposite.