November 13, 2025

Two people enjoying a conversation

Digital Pillars of Salt

How many times have you seen this image or perhaps you’ve done it yourself? Two friends sit across from each other at a restaurant, not talking to each other, but instead checking their phones.

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Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Nov. 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope Leo’s first six months: revolution of kindness with a missionary impulse

Pope Leo XIV's election already proved historically significant: the first U.S.-born pope, the first Augustinian, and the first pope born after World War II.
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God Knows Our Heart Completely

Did I confess certain sins? If I didn’t, have I sinned by going to Holy Communion all these years? I have gone to Confession faithfully.
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hands open | Photo by Thérèse Westby on Unsplash

Sister Death

Throughout this canticle, we have seen how Francis saw God’s goodness, radiance and beauty in all creatures. He saw them indeed as benevolent friends, as brothers and sisters—as family. And now even the reality of death itself becomes “Sister Death” ...
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