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A family is suing the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education for censoring the speech of their high school daughter who painted a rock on school grounds with the words “Freedom 1776” and “Live Like Kirk—John 11:25” after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Vogue singled out the pope’s first public appearance after his election as the defining image of his papacy’s visual identity. Standing on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo XIV wore a red satin mozzetta and a wine-colored stole embroidered in gold, completed by a pectoral cross suspended from a golden silk cord

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Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, December 14, 2025

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Pope's Mass on the occasion of the Jubilee for the prison world

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Indications reflect a rare convergence. The death of one Pope and the swift election of another marked more than a leadership transition; they transformed the Catholic Church into one of the most searched, read, and debated topics of the year.

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Address of the Pope to participants in the Jubilee of Italian Diplomacy

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Overall, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Christians are still in Syria. Of those who remain, more than half are over the age of 50. The community’s age structure is inverted, with far fewer young people able or willing to stay

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The study reveals a happy, engaged, and relational generation that deeply values ​​community and interpersonal relationships -- family, friendship, and faith -- but feels a lack of spaces of belonging appropriate to their stage of life.

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The confessional, long considered a casualty of modernity, may thus be reemerging as a defining space for a Church that has learned to live as a minority—smaller, more urban, and more intentional than before

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A recent nationwide survey conducted by EWTN News in partnership with RealClear Opinion Research illustrates this tension with unusual clarity

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