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        <title>‘O Sacred Banquet’: A New Book Inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas’ Eucharistic Prayer</title>
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                <author>Zelda Caldwell</author>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T13:36:57-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Dominican Father Patrick Mary Briscoe explains why he has prayed a specific prayer for years.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>'O sacred banquet in which Christ becomes our food, the memory of his Passion is celebrated, the soul is filled with grace, and the pledge of future glory is given to us!' reads the prayer, which Dominican Father Patrick Mary Briscoe has prayed daily for years. </p>]]>
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        <title>Mary’s ‘Yes’ in the Age of AI: The Marian Heart of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’</title>
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                <author>Joseph Pronechen</author>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T12:18:47-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>‘No one manifests human personhood and humanity better than Our Lady,’ explains professor Mark Miravalle.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>Mark Miravalle discusses the Marian dimension of Pope Leo’s encyclical on Catholic social teaching and artificial intelligence.</p>]]>
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        <title>Speaking Truth to Power: When the Pope Addresses Governments</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T12:17:26-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Pope Leo XIV speaks at Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid, Spain, on June 8, 2026, becoming the first Pope in history to address the Spanish Parliament. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>From Westminster Hall to the U.N., popes have been invited to address civic assemblies during their travels. How have they used these speeches to challenge leaders on life, economics, and migration?</p>]]>
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        <title>Pope Leo XIV Says Care for Creation Is a Requirement of Faith</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T12:14:17-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Pope Leo XIV feeds fish during the Sept. 5, 2025, inauguration of Borgo Laudato Si’, an ecological village on the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo, 18 miles south of Rome. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>In a video message to the Austrian World Summit, the Pope urged believers, wealthy nations, and religious communities to help build a culture of care for the environment.</p>]]>
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        <title>Pope Leo XIV Defends Journalism Against the Drug of ‘Fake News’</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T12:09:47-05:00</pubDate>
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  <footer>Javier Romero</footer>
  <figcaption>Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters outside the papal villa of Castel Gandolfo on May 5, 2026, before returning to Rome after a daylong stay there. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>In a message to an Italian newspaper, the Pope urged journalists to resist 'artificial polarizations' and serve as 'instruments of truth.'</p>]]>
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        <title>Ukraine Advocate Says Cathedral Bombing Reflects Broader Campaign Against Christianity</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T11:43:46-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Smoke and fire rises from the Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on June 15, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>'This is certainly deliberate,' Ukraine Freedom Project Founder Steven Moore said of the attack on the historic 11th-century Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.</p>]]>
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        <title>Bitter Victory or Sweet Defeat in the Middle East, But Whose?</title>
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                <author>Alberto M. Fernandez</author>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T08:24:17-05:00</pubDate>
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  <footer>Mahmoud Zayyat</footer>
  <figcaption>People make their way through the heavily damaged historic market of Nabatieh as residents displaced by the fighting return to southern Lebanon on June 15, 2026. Israel&#039;s defence minister said on June 15, that Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza indefinitely, hours after the United States and Iran agreed to end the Middle East war, including in Lebanon. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>COMMENTARY: The consequences of this war will only be revealed over time, months and even years into the future.</p>]]>
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        <title>Smartphones and Fertility: Studies Suggest a Link — and Complex Implications</title>
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                <author>Jonah McKeown</author>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-16T05:05:57-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>More phone time equals less babies? Studies consider the impact of digital tech.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>The rise of smartphone culture has had a negative effect on most kinds of in-person socialization, Catholic social scientists say, exacerbating loneliness and serving as a barrier to fruitful, holy relationships.</p>]]>
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        <title>Northern Ireland City Leads First Coordinated Worldwide Marian Eucharistic Procession</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T19:52:36-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>In Derry City, Northern Ireland, on June 13, 2026, to mark the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, thousands took part in a Eucharistic procession that completed its route in the shadow of the city’s famous walls.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>The Northern Ireland city kicked off a worldwide Eucharistic procession honoring the Blessed Mother, coordinated at the same time across six continents.</p>]]>
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        <title>US Vice President, Second Lady Share Family Mass Attendance Practices</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T19:48:45-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>U.S. Vice President JD Vance (right) and his family attend the Vatican’s Liturgy for the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday, April 18, 2025.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>Having priests come to celebrate Mass at home is ‘one of the rare privileges of this life,’ Vice President JD Vance said.</p>]]>
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        <title>The Priesthood Enters the World Through the Diaconate</title>
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                <author>Deacon Dominic Cerrato</author>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T19:00:14-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Ford Madox Brown, “Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet,” 1852-1856</figcaption>
        </figure><p>COMMENTARY: An Open Letter to Those Entering the Transitional Diaconate</p>]]>
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        <title>Catholic-Backed Religious Liberty Lawsuit Asks Supreme Court to Address ‘Finality’ Rule</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T16:08:26-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Daniel Grand stands in University Heights, Ohio, in an undated photograph.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>The U.S. Catholic bishops have backed the lawsuit brought by Jewish resident Daniel Grand against the city of University Heights, Ohio, in a dispute over a planned prayer group.</p>]]>
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        <title>Human Dignity and Human Frailty at the Heart of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T13:46:56-05:00</pubDate>
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  <footer>Daniel Ibanez</footer>
  <figcaption>Pope Leo XIV during the General Audience at St. Peter&#039;s Square on May 27, 2026.</figcaption>
        </figure><p>COMMENTARY: We can’t understand how Pope Leo urges us to address the challenges of technology without understanding what he is teaching us about the meaning and the demands of human dignity.</p>]]>
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        <title>Pope Leo XIV Comforts Elderly Suffering From Loneliness: God’s Love ‘Forgets No One’</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T13:15:26-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Pope Leo XIV greets residents of St. Martha Home for the Elderly in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, during a visit on July 21, 2025. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>In 2026, the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated on the Feast of Saints Anne and Joachim, the grandparents of Jesus.</p>]]>
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        <title>Pakistan Government Takes Over Historic Christian College Building in Lahore</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T13:12:35-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Ewing Hall stands in the Anarkali area of Lahore, Pakistan. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>Punjab authorities have seized Ewing Hall, a century-old building tied to Lahore's Forman Christian College, as Christian leaders and rights groups warn it could be lost for good.</p>]]>
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        <title>Norway’s March for Life Returns After 40 Years, Uniting Christians for the Unborn</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T13:10:36-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Ragnhild Helena Aadland Høen, public affairs officer for the Norwegian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, stands with Maria Fongen, family pastoral adviser for the Catholic Diocese of Oslo, with the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) in the background. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>Catholics, Lutherans, Pentecostals, and evangelicals marched together for the unborn through a rainy Oslo in Norway’s first major March for Life in some 40 years.</p>]]>
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  <figcaption>Pope Leo XIV receives a menorah from a representative of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on June 15, 2026. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>The pontiff addressed representatives of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York on June 15.</p>]]>
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        <title>Our Culture Has Forgotten a Child Is a Gift From God</title>
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  <figcaption>Carl Bloch (1834-1890), “Christ With the Children”</figcaption>
        </figure><p>COMMENTARY: It is a paradox of human nature that we undervalue what is priceless and overvalue what is worthless.</p>]]>
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        <title>What’s in a Religious Name?</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T08:46:01-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Sister Mara Grace Gore (center), the vocations director of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, smiles alongside her fellow sisters. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>Four Catholic religious sisters share how they received their names — and what the process reveals about identity and mission.</p>]]>
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        <title>Czech Court Clears Archbishop Persecuted by Communist Regime</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-06-15T08:26:25-05:00</pubDate>
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  <figcaption>Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha of Olomouc, Czech Republic, is pictured in an undated portrait. </figcaption>
        </figure><p>More than six decades after Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha died under communist internment, a Czech court has formally recognized his imprisonment as unlawful.</p>]]>
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