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A growing number of Catholic higher education institutions in recent years have introduced new academic majors and programs in artificial intelligence that combine technical training with ethics. https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-colleges-and-universities-jumping-quick-moving-ai-field

"I hope the pope comes to help the poor like me," said María Ruíz Díaz, a 70-year-old retiree. https://www.ncronline.org/news/argentines-pray-pope-leos-visit-alleviates-their-economic-stress

The priest's St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal will resume its activities with a Sept. 28 online deliverance prayer session. https://www.ncronline.org/news/msgr-rossetti-resumes-deliverance-ministry-after-removal-dc-exorcist

Founded six decades ago, the St. Damian Rehabilitation Center for Leprosy and Disability has empowered thousands of disabled Indonesians to improve their lives. https://www.globalsistersreport.org/ministry/german-nuns-legacy-continues-transforming-lives-disabled-indonesians

St. Augustine Church just celebrated Louis Armstrong's birth. The historic church endures amid parish closures and mergers and a shrinking Catholic footprint. https://www.ncronline.org/news/how-black-catholic-church-celebrates-new-orleans-even-face-parish-closures

Br. Michael Perry was elected on July 15 to lead the largest province of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in the United States. https://www.ncronline.org/news/new-leader-us-franciscans-pope-leo-trying-hold-church-together

Arguably the most influential Catholic monk since Thomas Merton, Brother David Steindl-Rast has carried Benedictine spirituality into the modern world. This week, he turned 100 years old. https://www.ncronline.org/news/brother-david-steindl-rast-turns-100-and-keeps-fire-spirituality-going

The Kino Border Initiative's program "invite(s) people to lean into the complexity and all the discomfort that it brings," writes Sr. Eileen McKenzie. https://www.globalsistersreport.org/columns/migration/signs-our-times-catholic-sisters-walk-migrants

In keeping with their charism of helping the downtrodden and outcast, the Dinasevanasabha nuns run the Infant Jesus Children's Home, a center for children with HIV/AIDS in Bengaluru, southern India. https://www.globalsistersreport.org/ministry/nuns-care-children-hiv-reintegrate-them-indian-society

"It's like a mobile coffee hour," said Capuchin Br. Paul Fesefeldt, founder and director of Capuchin Mobile Ministries. Prayers are available for those who want them. https://www.ncronline.org/news/ministry-offers-food-supplies-and-connections-bostons-unhoused

As we struggle both individually and collectively as a church to figure out synodality, might Henry David Thoreau be another voice we need to heed? https://bit.ly/3R3nxDU

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said his decision to remove a high-profile priest as an archdiocesan exorcist was driven by the public way he exercised his ministry, not by his specific beliefs about UFOs. https://bit.ly/4wEsTEP

After summarizing Catholic social teaching in Chapter 2 of his encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, ("Magnificent Humanity"), Pope Leo XIV applies this teaching to modern digital technology, especially artificial intelligence. https://bit.ly/4hbnsbE

Sr. Cecilia Nguyen has spent decades shaping the faith of others. Now, as she faces kidney failure and a long wait for a transplant, she leans on that same faith to sustain her.

We have largely surrendered our limited temporal resources to algorithms, and the near-constant distraction of smartphones and social media threatens our spiritual flourishing and prayer lives, writes Dan Horan.

A Catholic priest working for peace and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was killed by armed men near his residence in the town of Zemio on June 29. https://bit.ly/4fqmjf4

Nuns manage an adoption center that has placed more than 1,000 orphans with families since its inception in 1974. "Our mission is to promote and protect life," Sr. Jain Augustine Adackkanattu, the center's president, told GSR.

Four months before the midterm elections, Minnesota faith leaders who previously have protested against federal immigration agents have unveiled a multistate initiative to ensure fair elections.

More than a rupture, the scene surrounding the most significant schism in the Catholic Church's recent memory felt like a reunion.

"We can't allow the words of the Declaration of Independence to devolve into impotent platitudes. Following the example of Leo, we must incarnate its commitment to dignity, equality and flourishing in our actions and in our laws."

Vice President JD Vance's new book offers a window into why he decided to become Catholic but stops short of exploring how his newfound faith affects his worldview.

St. Benedict, father of Western monasticism, lived in a time of turmoil, probably much like our present time. Ten hallmarks help mold the Benedictine life he established, and they continue to be relevant today.

French Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass but loyal to Rome are expressing deep sadness after the Society of St. Pius X consecrated four bishops without papal approval, prompting the Vatican to declare the group in schism and excommunicate six SSPX bishops.

Another Nicaraguan bishop remains missing after being apprehended by police, drawing a rebuke from the United States for the ongoing "attacks on religious freedom" in the increasingly authoritarian country.

Budgets reveal our values. They tell us what we fear, what we protect and what kind of future we are willing to build.

The El Paso Diocese-run nonprofit is one of the largest providers of legal services for unaccompanied children. It says the U.S. is defying a court order.

In the face of decades of papal teachings about the reality and urgency of climate change, U.S. sisters have been leaders on environmental action. In contrast, U.S. bishops have largely not been creation care leaders.

"Decisions we make about culture — even the very structures we build — may well determine the shape of the next quarter millennium," Scott Hurd writes.

In a time when patriotism feels complicated, the World Cup has given us a chance to root for something overtly, unapologetically American. Until doing so — yet again — felt tainted.

"We are going to put their names on this paper and leave them here for Jesus," Fr. Raymond Riding said of family members and friends killed, hurt or missing in the recent disaster.

Sr. Joanna Okereke, a member of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus, fulfilled a dream her mother was never allowed to pursue: to become a nun.

Even though New York's St. Vincent's Medical Center has shuttered, Seton Hall University historian Thomas Rzeznik says the hospital continues to provide important insights for other Catholic institutions today.

Unable to receive a Catholic education in the British colonies in North America, three young men from wealthy Maryland families were sent to Saint-Omer, France, to study at the College of the English Jesuits.

Despite the fact that many Venezuelan faith leaders have been themselves impacted by the ongoing disaster, they’ve sprung into action to provide food, psychological support and other basic needs to the large population of victims.

On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the U.S. death penalty, faith leaders join calls for an end to the death penalty. But religion has also been present in support for capital punishment.

After spending the morning praying for migrants on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and his family.

Leo is spending the rest of July at the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, the Vatican's historic summer residence south of Rome that the American pope has turned into his weekly getaway for tennis and swimming.

St. Agnes in St. Paul is not affiliated with SSPX, but parishioners said they were saddened by the schism and would continue to pray for a united church.

Over a 75-year period, the report said, allegations were made against 37 Saginaw priests and 1 deacon, with the vast majority before 2002. No criminal charges were filed.

Mexican soccer fans have prayed for World Cup success at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, where the faithful dressed a Christ Child in the country's official soccer kit.

Leo, who said religion must never justify discrimination, symbolically took up the mantle of his predecessor, who placed migration at the center of his pontificate by visiting the island in July 2013.

"As every American knows, the path to building a society that would embody those high ideals of liberty and justice for all was not always easy and, in many respects, is still a work in progress," the pontiff said.

The Vatican has released the framework for a fall meeting with the heads of Eastern Catholic Churches and presidents of bishops' conferences, marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia and focusing on the Church's pastoral approach to families.

Myanmar's junta has sentenced a Catholic nun who has been providing aid to internally displaced people to eight months in prison under a law widely used to suppress dissent since the military seized power in February 2021.

Sr. Anita Cleary's pilgrimage to El Salvador and Honduras was a tangible experience of memory, truth and responsibility.

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Scripture scholar Wes Howard-Brook discussing biblical literacy and finding the Creator in creation.

"I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process," Sr. Rose Kuhn tells unaccompanied minors facing deportation in court. "I'm here to accompany you."

There is room for everybody within the church's embrace. Except those who refuse the embrace. It appears the Vatican has finally lost patience with these antisemitic, post-liberal, cafeteria and now former Catholics.

Leo, who said religion must never justify discrimination, symbolically took up the mantle of his predecessor, who placed migration at the center of his pontificate by visiting the island in July 2013.

The annual shareholder proposal season is complete, and Catholic sisters say the resolutions they put forth scored resounding victories. Of course, the sisters don't score these things the way average investors do.