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May 27, 2026
Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Mark 10:32-45 - 32 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, 33 saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles; 34 and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise."
May 27, 2026
By Bridget Sielicki, Live Action - In the latest episode of Human Matters, host Sami Parker discussed why cohabitation before marriage isn't a good idea... She pointed to statistics that show that couples who live together before marriage face higher rates of divorce than couples who do not cohabitate... Cohabitating couples and married couples face the same challenges, but those who are married have made a vow and entered into a commitment to stay together, while cohabitating couples don't have the same levels of commitment.
May 27, 2026
By Stephen Kokx, Integrity - On Tuesday, May 26, Integrity senior writer Riaan Van Zyl and podcaster The Catholic Esquire appeared on the Integrity Magazine podcast to discuss Leo’s deeply problematic encyclical Magnifica Humanitas... Earlier this week, Riaan wrote an essay about the document titled, “Vatican II’s religion of man on full display in Leo’s AI encyclical.” It has quickly become Integrity’s most-viewed essay published over the last seven days.
May 27, 2026
By David L. Gray, ThM, Catholic Stand - Chapter Four, “Truth, Work, Freedom,” is where the encyclical’s promise thins. Having diagnosed an “anti-human vision” that equates fullness with “having more” (§112), Leo arrives at work and retreats into the familiar grammar of Rerum Novarum and Laborem Exercens: the value of work, the dignity of the worker, the problem of unemployment, fair remuneration, “an economy that values dignity.”... Leo defends the worker’s place within that system; he does not imagine what labor might be when that system no longer needs most human labor. This is the document’s central omission, and it is a theological one before it is an economic one....
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