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May 28, 2026
By Dale Ahlquist, Catholic World Report - However, I think there are two main omissions in Magnifica Humanitas... First, while Pope Leo points out that our great technical advancements have created new forms of slavery, he misses the main form of slavery condemned by his namesake: wage slavery. One could argue that the main point of Rerum Novarum is that “more workers should become owners.” Leo XIV does not mention this at all. He does not acknowledge the importance of widespread ownership, which for Chesterton and Belloc was the key solution to modern social and economic problems. Subsidiarity is the small shop. Solidarity is the seed planted in the earth.
May 28, 2026
By The Dynamic Catholic Institute - Saint Mariana of Jesus discovered God’s dream for her through discussions with her confessor and spiritual director... Mariana was born in 1618 in Quito, Ecuador. She took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience at the age of ten, but she did not enter a convent. Instead, under the guidance of her spiritual director, a Jesuit priest, she became a solitary consecrated woman and lived in her sister’s home. Mariana spent much of her time in the local Jesuit church, and many hours with her spiritual director, who was also her confessor.
May 28, 2026
By Martin Grichting, INFOVATICANA - In the Church, the problem of power is even more pressing. There, not all the means mentioned exist to fragment power. Rather, according to the doctrine of the faith and the Code of Canon Law (CIC/1983), the Pope “by virtue of his office possesses supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power in the Church” (can. 331). ... The Pope therefore possesses absolute power. Does absolute power therefore corrupt absolutely within the Church? If the Church is considered only with human eyes, one would have to say: yes, it does. But if considered with the eyes of faith, this is not true. For there is one single “instrument” to limit papal omnipotence: unconditional obedience to Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, to which the Pope is bound in conscience. ...
May 28, 2026
Author Don Schwager , Servants of the Word - Mark 10:46-52 - 46 And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. 47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" 48 And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" ...
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