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An anti-ICE agitator learned the meaning of the word karma after deciding to mess around with a fast-moving car exiting Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey.
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In yet another blatant example of judicial activism and lawfare against the will of the American people, U.S.
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The Trump administration’s war on fraud is showing no signs of slowing down.
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Family members killed in southern Lebanon, French lawmakers protect the seal of confession, Salesian martyrs to be beatified in Poland, and more in this week’s roundup of Catholic world news.
Only the second International Shrine in the Philippines, the Batangas sanctuary will mark its new status with a formal declaration on the saint’s Sept. 23 memorial.
New hotels, restaurants, and an artisan market have revitalized the “Star City of the South.”
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![Educators weigh benefits and challenges of AI in the classroom – #Catholic – Educators are weighing the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence (AI) and exploring how to successfully integrate the technology into the classroom.As Pope Leo XIV laid out in Magnifica Humanitas, AI must be used in a way that furthers human development, especially in the formational years of education.Educators are using AI tools to help them grade papers and offer extensive research capabilities, but they are simultaneously noting the need for community and connections that no technology can provide.Fernanda Psihas, a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, said the technology tools have not replaced human instructors and human connection is still the key to success in the classroom.Concerned about the ethical use of AI, Psihas said it is necessary to preserve the “human element” to enhance the future of education.“We obviously need to prepare the students for a world with AI,” she told EWTN News. “That means learning tools, but that also means practicing proper discernment.”The data science and physics professor said it would be “dangerous” for teachers to keep teaching as if nothing had changed.“If instructors are not AI-literate, then classrooms are going to run the risk of drifting into having students faking competence and avoiding the actual learning,” she said.Taking a “values-first approach” to AI, Psihas said she tries to keep herself and her students accountable when it comes to its use.“Use it to increase efficiency so you can focus on the learning, but if you do any more than that, youʼre actually destroying the learning process,” she said.Protecting academic integrityAware that “cognitive offloading” to AI tools could disrupt the learning process of students, Psihas said certain AI tools can be useful to protect academic integrity.“I even use AI to AI-proof my own assignments,” she said. “Iʼll run my assignments through AI to see an example of an AI response … if something in my classroom is AI-generated, my students know about it, and I kind of expect the same for my students.”While AI helps Psihas accurately grade multiple-choice tests and produce datasets, she said it cannot replace her ability to engage with students through mentorship.“Education is a lot more than just skills and information-transfer, but itʼs actually the formation of the whole person,” she said. “There’s guidance. You guide and nurture the students’ curiosity and their skills.”It “is about turning knowledge into wisdom and turning skills into virtue and character,” she said.Similarly, Notre Dame Law School professor and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences member Paolo Carozza said we must ensure technology “is orienting us towards the fundamental understanding of reality, including the reality of ourselves and what weʼre made for or not,” Carozza told EWTN News.Pope Leo makes this clear in Magnifica Humanitas, that at the root it is “an integrated problem of cooperating with one another to rebuild our city that we want to live in, in the future together.”Education “plays a central role in this cooperative enterprise because weʼre forming the individuals that are then going to be putting the bricks together in the future,” he said.Advantages and disadvantages are ‘well mapped’AI’s “advantages and disadvantages are pretty well mapped,” Carozza said. AI can “positively enhance the reach of peopleʼs research and the knowledge that they can draw.”In contrast, “every educator, at every level, is seeing the really potentially drastic negative consequences of cognitive offloading and de-skilling of students' basic capacities to write and to think critically.”The “deeper challenge” for educators is “providing our students with a fundamental human formation that allows them to really think about what their personal relationship to technology is in their lives and how it affects it.”The positive and negative impacts of AI in education also differ based on age and must be addressed accordingly, said An Chih Cheng, professor at DePaul Universityʼs College of Education.“The pope warned about the danger of early exposure to digital technology,” Cheng told EWTN News.Children spending time watching screens “is not particularly conducive” for their “mental and cognitive development.”A lot of screen time for children “is passive learning” and is “devoid of social aspects that are critical for communal development,” he said.“Communality is a critical part of the pope’s idea that we are not by ourselves” and “we are all interconnected as one,” he said. Going “to the screen and being isolated” is “harmful for your own internality, your own individual growth, and also bad for communal development.”There are also risks of “digital harm” for teenagers, especially with social media use, which has “caused harm to individual teenagers in particular, even suicide,” Cheng said.Then in higher education, new technologies are often being used with “little guidance.”“For example, California [State University] signed a $13 million contract with Open AI to allow students and teachers to use ChatGPT,” he said. “But … if you just have the chatbot open there, it is absolutely not helpful for meaningful learning.”The universities are “kind of just buying these tools, convinced or led by the tech industry, thinking that they could deliver some kind of learning.”“But learning, as the pope has always said, is an inquiry, a truth-seeking endeavor that requires patience. You cannot just have an immediate answer like the prompt that gives an immediate answer,” he said.“You need to put in all the effort to seek out the truth. Thatʼs how we mentally develop — acquiring the truth.”Reimagining education in the age of AITo help students understand both the risks and benefits of AI, Carozza and Cheng are incorporating AI into their students' studies.In his seminar on law and technology, Carozza had his students take a new approach when studying their weekly scholarly works.“In addition to reading it directly and engaging in their own critical analysis of it, I actually required them to upload those papers into an AI tool and use the tool to analyze it,” he said.Then “they had to write … an essay comparing their analysis to the AI analysis, reflecting on what the use of AI was doing to their own cognitive abilities and processes.”This allowed the students “to reflect every week” and ask: “Is this displacing my ability to think? Is it helping it? How can I make it more the latter than the former?”“It was great because by the end of the semester they really had thought very deeply, in a continuous way, about their relationship to technology, what the appropriate limits were for themselves, and what to be cautious about,” he said.“That sort of reflection on who we are as knowing subjects, as free people — thatʼs exactly what the encyclical is asking us to do,” Carozza said.Cheng is also incorporating the technology into studies in his research method class where “AI can be used to help brainstorm some research questions,” he said.“More importantly,” AI “can help make things more accessible, because some of the statistical software is very expensive to purchase,” he aid. “I incorporate … statistical analysis that they can do at home. These tools are much [more] affordable than the super-expensive commercial software."Cheng also utilizes visual AI simulations so students “can see these virtually enriched environments,” which is “beneficial for preservice teachers [student teachers] to understand child development."The pope’s call is correct, that it is “not about using AI to replace teachers or professors but rather to incorporate AI in a way that can further human development and in a way that delivers … spiritual attainment,” Cheng said.](https://unitedyam.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/educators-weigh-benefits-and-challenges-of-ai-in-the-classroom-catholic-educators-are-weighing-the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-and-exploring-how-to-successfully-integra.jpg "Educators weigh benefits and challenges of AI in the classroom – #Catholic – Educators are weighing the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence (AI) and exploring how to successfully integrate the technology into the classroom.As Pope Leo XIV laid out in Magnifica Humanitas, AI must be used in a way that furthers human development, especially in the formational years of education.Educators are using AI tools to help them grade papers and offer extensive research capabilities, but they are simultaneously noting the need for community and connections that no technology can provide.Fernanda Psihas, a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, said the technology tools have not replaced human instructors and human connection is still the key to success in the classroom.Concerned about the ethical use of AI, Psihas said it is necessary to preserve the “human element” to enhance the future of education.“We obviously need to prepare the students for a world with AI,” she told EWTN News. “That means learning tools, but that also means practicing proper discernment.”The data science and physics professor said it would be “dangerous” for teachers to keep teaching as if nothing had changed.“If instructors are not AI-literate, then classrooms are going to run the risk of drifting into having students faking competence and avoiding the actual learning,” she said.Taking a “values-first approach” to AI, Psihas said she tries to keep herself and her students accountable when it comes to its use.“Use it to increase efficiency so you can focus on the learning, but if you do any more than that, youʼre actually destroying the learning process,” she said.Protecting academic integrityAware that “cognitive offloading” to AI tools could disrupt the learning process of students, Psihas said certain AI tools can be useful to protect academic integrity.“I even use AI to AI-proof my own assignments,” she said. “Iʼll run my assignments through AI to see an example of an AI response … if something in my classroom is AI-generated, my students know about it, and I kind of expect the same for my students.”While AI helps Psihas accurately grade multiple-choice tests and produce datasets, she said it cannot replace her ability to engage with students through mentorship.“Education is a lot more than just skills and information-transfer, but itʼs actually the formation of the whole person,” she said. “There’s guidance. You guide and nurture the students’ curiosity and their skills.”It “is about turning knowledge into wisdom and turning skills into virtue and character,” she said.Similarly, Notre Dame Law School professor and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences member Paolo Carozza said we must ensure technology “is orienting us towards the fundamental understanding of reality, including the reality of ourselves and what weʼre made for or not,” Carozza told EWTN News.Pope Leo makes this clear in Magnifica Humanitas, that at the root it is “an integrated problem of cooperating with one another to rebuild our city that we want to live in, in the future together.”Education “plays a central role in this cooperative enterprise because weʼre forming the individuals that are then going to be putting the bricks together in the future,” he said.Advantages and disadvantages are ‘well mapped’AI’s “advantages and disadvantages are pretty well mapped,” Carozza said. AI can “positively enhance the reach of peopleʼs research and the knowledge that they can draw.”In contrast, “every educator, at every level, is seeing the really potentially drastic negative consequences of cognitive offloading and de-skilling of students' basic capacities to write and to think critically.”The “deeper challenge” for educators is “providing our students with a fundamental human formation that allows them to really think about what their personal relationship to technology is in their lives and how it affects it.”The positive and negative impacts of AI in education also differ based on age and must be addressed accordingly, said An Chih Cheng, professor at DePaul Universityʼs College of Education.“The pope warned about the danger of early exposure to digital technology,” Cheng told EWTN News.Children spending time watching screens “is not particularly conducive” for their “mental and cognitive development.”A lot of screen time for children “is passive learning” and is “devoid of social aspects that are critical for communal development,” he said.“Communality is a critical part of the pope’s idea that we are not by ourselves” and “we are all interconnected as one,” he said. Going “to the screen and being isolated” is “harmful for your own internality, your own individual growth, and also bad for communal development.”There are also risks of “digital harm” for teenagers, especially with social media use, which has “caused harm to individual teenagers in particular, even suicide,” Cheng said.Then in higher education, new technologies are often being used with “little guidance.”“For example, California [State University] signed a $13 million contract with Open AI to allow students and teachers to use ChatGPT,” he said. “But … if you just have the chatbot open there, it is absolutely not helpful for meaningful learning.”The universities are “kind of just buying these tools, convinced or led by the tech industry, thinking that they could deliver some kind of learning.”“But learning, as the pope has always said, is an inquiry, a truth-seeking endeavor that requires patience. You cannot just have an immediate answer like the prompt that gives an immediate answer,” he said.“You need to put in all the effort to seek out the truth. Thatʼs how we mentally develop — acquiring the truth.”Reimagining education in the age of AITo help students understand both the risks and benefits of AI, Carozza and Cheng are incorporating AI into their students' studies.In his seminar on law and technology, Carozza had his students take a new approach when studying their weekly scholarly works.“In addition to reading it directly and engaging in their own critical analysis of it, I actually required them to upload those papers into an AI tool and use the tool to analyze it,” he said.Then “they had to write … an essay comparing their analysis to the AI analysis, reflecting on what the use of AI was doing to their own cognitive abilities and processes.”This allowed the students “to reflect every week” and ask: “Is this displacing my ability to think? Is it helping it? How can I make it more the latter than the former?”“It was great because by the end of the semester they really had thought very deeply, in a continuous way, about their relationship to technology, what the appropriate limits were for themselves, and what to be cautious about,” he said.“That sort of reflection on who we are as knowing subjects, as free people — thatʼs exactly what the encyclical is asking us to do,” Carozza said.Cheng is also incorporating the technology into studies in his research method class where “AI can be used to help brainstorm some research questions,” he said.“More importantly,” AI “can help make things more accessible, because some of the statistical software is very expensive to purchase,” he aid. “I incorporate … statistical analysis that they can do at home. These tools are much [more] affordable than the super-expensive commercial software.\"Cheng also utilizes visual AI simulations so students “can see these virtually enriched environments,” which is “beneficial for preservice teachers [student teachers] to understand child development.\"The pope’s call is correct, that it is “not about using AI to replace teachers or professors but rather to incorporate AI in a way that can further human development and in a way that delivers … spiritual attainment,” Cheng said.")
Magnifica Humanitas offers educators guidelines and tools on how to approach AI while prioritizing human dignity.
Spirit Juice Kids is best known for its YouTube Channel, Juice Box, where it creates faith-based content for children, specifically targeting 3- to 6-year-olds.
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 5: Check in on Mars Look east around 11 P.M. local daylight time, and you’ll see three bright stars forming a triangle — this is the famous Summer Triangle asterism, which flies high overhead in the middle of short summer nights.Continue reading “The Sky Today on Saturday, June 6: Albireo returns”
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Oh no! A woman has accused a political candidate of vile deeds! But should you believe them?
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LOS ANGELES, CA — After multiple days of late-night mail-in ballot drops finally being tallied, it was discovered that Joe Biden had won the Los Angeles mayoral race with an astonishing 81 million votes.
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A year after America’s first spacewalk, Gemini IX-A Eugene Cernan stepped outside his spacecraft for an ambitious extravehicular activity scheduled for 167 minutes. The challenges he faced led NASA to reevaluate plans, equipment, and training for future spacewalks.
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4:1-8
Beloved:
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus,
who will judge the living and the dead,
and by his appearing and his kingly power:
proclaim the word;
be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient;
convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine
but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity,
will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth
and will be diverted to myths.
But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances;
put up with hardship;
perform the work of an evangelist;
fulfill your ministry.For I am already being poured out like a libation,
and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have competed well;
I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.
From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me,
which the Lord, the just judge,
will award to me on that day, and not only to me,
but to all who have longed for his appearance.
From the Gospel according to Mark
12:38-44
In the course of his teaching Jesus said,
“Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes
and accept greetings in the marketplaces,
seats of honor in synagogues,
and places of honor at banquets.
They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext,
recite lengthy prayers.
They will receive a very severe condemnation.”He sat down opposite the treasury
and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury.
Many rich people put in large sums.
A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents.
Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them,
“Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more
than all the other contributors to the treasury.
For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had,
her whole livelihood.”
The scene is set in the temple of Jerusalem, precisely in the place where people are tossing coins as offerings. There are many rich people putting in large sums, and there is a poor woman, a widow, who contributes only two bits, two small coins. Jesus observes the woman carefully and calls the disciples’ attention to the sharp contrast of the scene. The wealthy contributed with great ostentation what for them was superfluous, while the widow, Jesus says, “put in everything she had, her whole living” (v. 44). For this reason, Jesus says, she gave the most of all. Because of her extreme poverty, she could have offered a single coin to the temple and kept the other for herself. But she did not want to give just half to God; she divested herself of everything. In her poverty she understood that in having God, she had everything; she felt completely loved by him and in turn loved him completely. What a beautiful example this little old woman offers us! Today Jesus also tells us that the benchmark is not quantity but fullness. There is a difference between quantity and fullness. You can have a lot of money and still be empty. There is no fullness in your heart. This week, think about the difference there is between quantity and fullness. It is not a matter of the wallet, but of the heart. (Pope Francis, Angelus, 8 November 2015)
Read More![Thankful new Rockaway deacon preaches at first Mass #Catholic - In the afternoon of May 30, Deacon Elmer Lopez Maximo preached for the first time at a Thanksgiving Mass at his home parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rockaway, N.J. in gratitude for his ordination as a permanent deacon of the Paterson Diocese, N.J.“ He preached that Saturday Mass and three Sunday Masses the following day for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
On the morning of May 30, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney ordained Deacon Maximo and seven other men as permanent deacons of the diocese during a Mass steeped in traditions of the Church at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, N.J.
Deacon Maximo, 58, was born and raised in the Philippines. A Sacred Heart parishioner for 28 years, he has served as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, a lector, a liturgical coordinator, and a parish leader, and he has also served on the Rosary Society, the Pro-Life ministry, the Finance Board, and the Pastoral Council.
At the diocesan level, Maximo serves as president of the Diocesan Commission for Catholic Filipino Ministries, which supports the faith formation and community life of Filipinos in the diocese.
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Father Cerilo Javinez, administrator of Sacred Heart and a native of the Philippines, celebrated the Mass. Deacon Maximo and Deacon Richard Van Glahn, also of Sacred Heart, assisted.
In his homily, Deacon Maximo said, “On this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, and on this sacred day of my ordination, I give thanks to God for calling me, sustaining me, and forming me through this beautiful village of faith.”
“My prayer is that my ministry may reflect the life of the Trinity and the meaning of the cross: a heart lifted to God in prayer and holiness, and arms stretched out to others in charity and service,” Deacon Maximo said, adding a few words in Tagalog. “This is the love I desire to live. This is the love I pray to serve, a love that comes from God and reaches out to all,” he said.
During the Mass, Deacon Maximo offered flowers in thanksgiving to the Blessed Virgin Mary as part of the “Flores de Maria” tradition in the Philippines, celebrated in May.
Deacon Maximo also credited Sacred Heart’s former pastor, Father Pawel Bala, as “a tremendous source of support and encouragement throughout my diaconate journey.”
In his homily, Deacon Maximo also told the Sacred Heart community that, as their servant-deacon, he offers “his life in service to this mystery of love: to proclaim the Gospel, to serve at the altar, and to reach out especially to those who feel forgotten, lonely, or unseen.”
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Thankful new Rockaway deacon preaches at first Mass #Catholic – 
In the afternoon of May 30, Deacon Elmer Lopez Maximo preached for the first time at a Thanksgiving Mass at his home parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rockaway, N.J. in gratitude for his ordination as a permanent deacon of the Paterson Diocese, N.J.“ He preached that Saturday Mass and three Sunday Masses the following day for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
On the morning of May 30, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney ordained Deacon Maximo and seven other men as permanent deacons of the diocese during a Mass steeped in traditions of the Church at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, N.J.
Deacon Maximo, 58, was born and raised in the Philippines. A Sacred Heart parishioner for 28 years, he has served as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, a lector, a liturgical coordinator, and a parish leader, and he has also served on the Rosary Society, the Pro-Life ministry, the Finance Board, and the Pastoral Council.
At the diocesan level, Maximo serves as president of the Diocesan Commission for Catholic Filipino Ministries, which supports the faith formation and community life of Filipinos in the diocese.
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Father Cerilo Javinez, administrator of Sacred Heart and a native of the Philippines, celebrated the Mass. Deacon Maximo and Deacon Richard Van Glahn, also of Sacred Heart, assisted.
In his homily, Deacon Maximo said, “On this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, and on this sacred day of my ordination, I give thanks to God for calling me, sustaining me, and forming me through this beautiful village of faith.”
“My prayer is that my ministry may reflect the life of the Trinity and the meaning of the cross: a heart lifted to God in prayer and holiness, and arms stretched out to others in charity and service,” Deacon Maximo said, adding a few words in Tagalog. “This is the love I desire to live. This is the love I pray to serve, a love that comes from God and reaches out to all,” he said.
During the Mass, Deacon Maximo offered flowers in thanksgiving to the Blessed Virgin Mary as part of the “Flores de Maria” tradition in the Philippines, celebrated in May.
Deacon Maximo also credited Sacred Heart’s former pastor, Father Pawel Bala, as “a tremendous source of support and encouragement throughout my diaconate journey.”
In his homily, Deacon Maximo also told the Sacred Heart community that, as their servant-deacon, he offers “his life in service to this mystery of love: to proclaim the Gospel, to serve at the altar, and to reach out especially to those who feel forgotten, lonely, or unseen.”
BEACON PHOTOS | JOE GIGLI
– In the afternoon of May 30, Deacon Elmer Lopez Maximo preached for the first time at a Thanksgiving Mass at his home parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rockaway, N.J. in gratitude for his ordination as a permanent deacon of the Paterson Diocese, N.J.“ He preached that Saturday Mass and three Sunday Masses the following day for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. On the morning of May 30, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney ordained Deacon Maximo and seven other men as permanent deacons of the diocese during a Mass steeped in traditions of the Church at the Cathedral of
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As an ordinary priest, prior general of the Augustinans and the bishop of Chiclayo, Pope Leo XIV traveled extensively in Spain, gaining firsthand knowledge of the country and its people.
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Now that Scott Pelley has been fired by 60 Minutes and CBS News, MSNOW star Rachel Maddow wants him to join her network.
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SAN DIEGO, CA — According to breaking news reports, John Bolton agreed to plead guilty to one count of illegally retaining classified national security information in exchange for only serving five years confined to a walrus exhibit at Sea World.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX — Sources confirmed that local 40-year-old Marcus Harper officially entered the developmental stage of adulthood characterized by an intense, borderline-religious obsession with researching electrolytes.
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A host on the liberal Daily Show recently mocked support for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, ultimately asking “How did this country get so stupid?” Supporting Pratt is stupid?
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Graham Platner, the scandal plagued Democratic Socialist (communist) running for a U.S.
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Guidelines urge districts to “immediately and expressly adopt a parental notice and opt-out policy,” which provides prominent and regular notice that will reach all parents.
A reading from the Second Letter of St. Paul to Timothy
3:10-17
You have followed my teaching, way of life,
purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions,
and sufferings, such as happened to me
in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra,
persecutions that I endured.
Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me.
In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus
will be persecuted.
But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse,
deceivers and deceived.
But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed,
because you know from whom you learned it,
and that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures,
which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching,
for refutation, for correction,
and for training in righteousness,
so that one who belongs to God may be competent,
equipped for every good work.
From the Gospel according to Mark
12:35-37
As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said,
“How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?
David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:
The Lord said to my lord,
‘Sit at my right hand
until I place your enemies under your feet.’
David himself calls him ‘lord’;
so how is he his son?”
The great crowd heard this with delight.
It is painful to recall that in this very moment, there are many Christians in various parts of the world who are suffering from persecution, and we must hope and pray that their trials will soon end. They are many: today’s martyrs outnumber the martyrs of the first centuries. Let us express our closeness to these brothers and sisters. We are a single body and these Christians are the bleeding limbs of the body of Christ who is the Church. (…) If God grants us the grace to be more like the Crucified Christ and joined to his Passion, then exclusion and persecution are the manifestation of new life. This life is the same as the life of Christ who was “despised and rejected” for us men and women and for our salvation” (cf. Is 53:3; Acts 8:30-35). Welcoming his Spirit can lead us to have so much love in our heart as to offer our life for the world without making compromises with its deceit and accepting its rejection.
Compromises with the world are dangerous: Christians are always tempted to make compromises with the world, with the spirit of the world. This — rejecting compromises and journeying on the way of Jesus Christ — is the life of the Kingdom of Heaven, the greatest joy and true happiness. And, in persecutions there is always the presence of Jesus who accompanies us, the presence of Jesus who comforts us and the strength of the Holy Spirit that helps us to go forward. Let us not be discouraged when a life that is faithful to the Gospel draws persecution from people. There is the Holy Spirit who sustains us in this journey. (Pope Francis, General Audience, 29 April 2020)
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The bishops urged that “judgments over life and death, the gravest of human challenges, must remain bound to our living consciences.”
During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere.
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Ordained in 1950, Father Bruno Kant served the Diocese of Fulda in Germany for decades. After retiring from active ministry, he remained a confidant, pastor, and spiritual guide for many parishioners.
The October gathering follows a pastoral letter by Bishop Antonio Suetta on charity, Christian witness, and the proclamation of the Gospel to Muslims living in the diocese.
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This week, US Customs and Border Protection interdicted a boat carrying 240 Haitian migrants making their way to the United States.
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Encíclica: Las opiniones del Papa León sobre la teoría de la guerra justa y la histórica disculpa de la Iglesia por la esclavitud #Catholic – 
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — En su primera encíclica, el Papa León XIV aprovechó una amplia reflexión sobre la inteligencia artificial para cuestionar si el marco de la guerra justa de la Iglesia Católica, vigente desde hace siglos, sigue siendo válido en la guerra moderna, y para pedir perdón por el papel de la Iglesia en la esclavitud.
La encíclica del Santo Padre, titulada “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnífica Humanidad”), se centra principalmente en el desarrollo ético de la inteligencia artificial y los peligros que plantean las armas autónomas, el poder tecnológico concentrado y la erosión de la dignidad humana. Pero en el documento, el Papa León también hace varias intervenciones más amplias sobre la guerra, la violencia y la injusticia histórica.
Al abordar estos temas, cuestionó la enseñanza católica sobre la teoría de la guerra justa en la guerra moderna y abordó la esclavitud de una manera sin precedentes.
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La teoría de la guerra justa, desarrollada en gran medida a través de los escritos de San Agustín y Santo Tomás de Aquino, ha sido aceptada durante siglos dentro de la doctrina católica para determinar si la guerra podría justificarse moralmente bajo condiciones estrictas. Establece que una nación debe hacer todo lo posible por evitar la violencia, considerando el costo humano, una causa justa y el esfuerzo por entablar negociaciones diplomáticas. Recientemente ha sido invocada por la administración Trump para justificar el conflicto en curso en el Medio Oriente.
Pero el Papa León escribió que la teoría se ha vuelto cada vez más inadecuada en una era marcada por el armamento avanzado y la inteligencia artificial y “ahora está desactualizada” (el pontífice usó la palabra “outdated” en inglés, que también se puede traducir como “desfasada”. Cabe mencionar que el párrafo en cuestión de la versión en español de la encíclica explica esto de la siguiente manera: “Hoy más que nunca es importante reiterar la superación de la teoría de la ‘guerra justa’, invocada con demasiada frecuencia para justificar cualquier guerra, sin perjuicio del derecho a la legítima defensa, entendida en el sentido más estricto”).
“La humanidad cuenta con instrumentos mucho más eficaces y capaces de promover la vida humana para afrontar los conflictos, como el diálogo, la diplomacia y el perdón”, escribió el Papa León. “El recurso a la fuerza, a la violencia y a las armas testimonia una pobreza relacional que siempre tiene consecuencias desastrosas para las poblaciones civiles”.
El pontífice también introdujo criterios adicionales que, según él, deben tenerse en cuenta antes de recurrir a la guerra, entre ellos garantizar una cadena de responsabilidad clara cuando se utilizan tecnologías automatizadas en combate, establecer un “tiempo del juicio moral” en una era en la que la inteligencia artificial puede acelerar las decisiones militares y salvaguardar a los civiles.
En otra parte de la encíclica, el Papa León abordó la participación de la Iglesia Católica en el “flagelo de la esclavitud” en términos más amplios que muchos de sus predecesores. Los papas anteriores se han disculpado por casos más específicos, como la participación cristiana en el comercio transatlántico de esclavos, pero el Papa León pareció enmarcar la responsabilidad de la Iglesia en términos más institucionales.
“Es inevitable sentir un profundo dolor al considerar el enorme sufrimiento y humillación que la esclavitud ha significado para tantas personas, en contraste con la dignidad sin límites de cada una de ellas, amadas infinitamente por el Señor”, escribió. “Por eso, en nombre de la Iglesia, pido sinceramente perdón”.
Los comentarios del Papa llamaron inmediatamente la atención porque ambos temas –la teoría de la guerra justa y la responsabilidad institucional por la esclavitud– representan enfoques novedosos. Anna Rowlands, profesora de teología política y doctrina social católica en Durham University en Inglaterra, habló con Catholic News Service sobre la importancia de las declaraciones del Papa y cómo encajan dentro de los temas más amplios de “Magnifica Humanitas”.
Esta entrevista ha sido editada para mayor claridad y brevedad:
CNS: Hablando del hecho de que esta primera encíclica aborda muchos de los temas que ha planteado a lo largo de su papado, algo que realmente nos llamó la atención fue su teoría de la guerra justa y cómo dijo que estaba desactualizada (según la traducción en inglés de la encíclica). Me gustaría conocer su opinión al respecto. Si está desactualizada, ¿habrá una nueva teoría que la reemplace? ¿Ve elementos de eso a lo largo de esta encíclica
Rowlands: Bueno, en realidad, el Papa León se suma a una conversación que lleva tiempo desarrollándose a través de encíclicas recientes y documentos eclesiásticos más amplios sobre cómo mantenemos exactamente el dinamismo del compromiso de la Iglesia con la paz como el único y verdadero objetivo final a la vista. Así que la tradición de la guerra justa se desarrolló, obviamente, desde la Iglesia primitiva, desde los primeros siglos –incluida la contribución muy significativa de Agustín a ella, la contribución de Santo Tomás de Aquino– y luego, en la era moderna, esa tradición se desarrolló para tratar de averiguar cómo mantener la paz en el mundo y fomentar la idea de que se podían construir comunidades humanas sostenibles, estables y comprometidas con la justicia.
Así que la pregunta es: ¿en qué medida la teoría de la guerra justa –que es una teoría, una forma de pensar colectivamente sobre cómo alcanzar esos fines– sirve como marco, como una especie de arquitectura moral para pensar en el mundo en el que vivimos hoy?
Y en los últimos papados –no solo el del Papa León en este momento, sino en los últimos papados– ha habido un intento de reevaluar la utilidad de esa teoría para el mundo moderno. Sin rechazar la teoría de plano, la valoración ha sido: a veces puede ser demasiado fácil invocar la teoría de la guerra justa en el mundo en el que vivimos ahora, demasiado rápido para justificar la violencia, la intervención y la fuerza, en lugar de hacer una pausa y tomar distancia de ella.
Así que la pregunta es: ¿puede la teoría de la guerra justa utilizarse a veces para justificar la violencia donde tal vez queramos ver paz? No es que la Iglesia haya rechazado esa tradición –y vimos al Papa León hacerlo muy recientemente–; él se basó en la tradición de la guerra justa en relación con Irán y el conflicto allí, para decir que debemos recordar que esto no cumple con los criterios de la teoría de la guerra justa. Eso es lo que muchos de los obispos estadounidenses –los obispos de EE.UU.– también están diciendo. Así que seguimos basándonos en eso. Se puede ver su utilidad e importancia ahí.
Pero lo que hace la encíclica es decir que no confiemos solo en eso y que debemos continuar este discernimiento permanente sobre el desempeño moral de la teoría de la guerra justa. ¿En qué medida nos ayuda a alcanzar los verdaderos fines, que son una paz justa para todos dentro de un orden global y también dentro de las naciones? Y así, en este momento, la encíclica nos insta a decir que no se puede utilizar la teoría de la guerra justa como un medio legítimo para precipitarse hacia la agresión y la violencia; y que necesitamos encontrar algo así como una teoría de la guerra justa plus para alcanzar verdaderamente los fines de la paz justa. Recuerden, ese es el enfoque. No es solo una consideración de libro de texto que nos permita legitimar la dominación.
Y lo que es realmente importante aquí es que él está evaluando la teoría de la guerra justa en una era tecnológica. Porque todo en este documento analiza lo que significa vivir en un tiempo, una era, un momento en el que la tecnología –estamos aquí sentados con micrófonos, ahora tú estás frente a una computadora portátil– está totalmente presente en esta conversación.
¿Cómo afecta eso a la guerra Y él deja muy claro que conduce a la despersonalización, conduce a una aceleración, a una rapidez en las decisiones. Y parece significar que tenemos una comprensión mucho menos tangible de lo que realmente implica cualquier uso de la violencia –incluso si fuera en defensa propia, legítima– y de cómo se crean intervalos de reflexión, verdadera transparencia y rendición de cuentas. Así que, si leen la sección del documento que sigue a su crítica de la teoría de la guerra justa, él establece algunas condiciones –las llama criterios de juicio– que nos ayudan a considerar qué haríamos ahora dado el contexto de la guerra moderna en el que nos encontramos. Así que quiere que evaluemos moralmente tanto la práctica como la teoría, casi mirando más allá de ellas hacia un marco que las abarca pero que nos lleva más allá. Y nos ofrece nuevos criterios para una era de guerra altamente impulsada por la tecnología.
CNS: Otra cosa que nos pareció muy interesante fue –creo que este fue uno de los raros momentos en los que lo vimos pedir perdón por la tolerancia de larga data de la Iglesia hacia la esclavitud. ¿Podrías hablarme un poco qué pensaste de eso y si crees que era el momento adecuado? ¿Crees que realmente tendrá un impacto?
Rowlands: Sí. Cuando leí por primera vez esos párrafos del documento, me impactaron mucho. Y me impactaron por dos razones desde dos perspectivas diferentes. Una es que las disculpas que la Iglesia ha ofrecido a los esclavos en el pasado –desde la época de Juan Pablo II en adelante, incluidas las del Papa Francisco– han sido, en general, expresiones del más profundo dolor y arrepentimiento por la participación de cristianos individuales en la legitimación de lo que siempre es la propiedad ilegítima y la subyugación de otro ser humano. Lo que hace este texto es llevarnos un poco más allá hacia el debate sobre la Iglesia y el lenguaje de la Iglesia, no solo sobre los cristianos individuales.
Así que hay un sentido mucho mayor de responsabilidad colectiva por lo que se hace en nombre de la Iglesia. Hay un cambio en el marco lingüístico aquí que, en mi opinión, tiene que ver con llevar el tema de la esclavitud y el legado de la esclavitud a un espacio colectivo de rendición de cuentas, responsabilidad y discernimiento.
Esto enlaza con la segunda parte que más me llamó la atención, que es que no se trata solo de un momento repentino de pedir perdón por la esclavitud; sino que se da en el contexto de pensar en la esclavitud contemporánea hoy y en el hecho de que, en una era tecnológica donde existen nuevas formas de subyugación y esclavitud, la Dra. (Leocadie) Lushombo habló hoy en su intervención sobre esas nuevas formas de esclavitud en la era digital: las industrias extractivas, la minería, la trata de personas, etc. Básicamente nos está diciendo: no queremos encontrarnos dentro de 100 años en otro momento de la historia en el que, una vez más, tengamos que pedir perdón por no haber abordado la esclavitud de nuestra propia era hoy. Así que está diciendo que, si voy a hablar con autoridad –habiendo comprendido ahora la urgencia del asunto–, también debo enfrentarme al pasado histórico.
– CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — En su primera encíclica, el Papa León XIV aprovechó una amplia reflexión sobre la inteligencia artificial para cuestionar si el marco de la guerra justa de la Iglesia Católica, vigente desde hace siglos, sigue siendo válido en la guerra moderna, y para pedir perdón por el papel de la Iglesia en la esclavitud. La encíclica del Santo Padre, titulada “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnífica Humanidad”), se centra principalmente en el desarrollo ético de la inteligencia artificial y los peligros que plantean las armas autónomas, el poder tecnológico concentrado y la erosión de la dignidad humana. Pero en
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Ambiente seguro, causas de canonización y el Sagrado Corazón en la agenda de la reunión de los obispos de EEUU #Catholic – 
(OSV News) – La agenda de los obispos católicos de Estados Unidos para su reunión anual de primavera incluye temas como protocolos de entorno seguro, causas de canonización, el sínodo sobre la sinodalidad y la consagración de los Estados Unidos al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús.
La Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos se reunirá del 10 al 12 de junio para una asamblea plenaria de primavera en Orlando, Florida.
Las sesiones públicas de la reunión, que tendrán lugar el 10 y 11 de junio, se transmitirán en vivo a través del sitio web de la USCCB (como se le conoce a la conferencia episcopal, por sus siglas en inglés) en usccb.org, según un comunicado de prensa emitido el 18 de mayo por la conferencia.
El arzobispo Paul S. Coakley, de Oklahoma City, abrirá las sesiones públicas con su primer discurso como presidente de la USCCB, tras haber sido elegido durante la reunión anual de otoño de la conferencia en noviembre de 2025.
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También se dirigirá a los obispos el arzobispo Gabriele G. Caccia, quien fue nombrado nuncio papal en los Estados Unidos en marzo, tras haber servido anteriormente como observador permanente de la Santa Sede ante las Naciones Unidas. El arzobispo Caccia sucedió al cardenal Christophe Pierre, quien cumplió 80 años en enero y había ocupado el cargo desde 2016.
La USCCB señaló en su comunicado que la agenda de la asamblea de junio “aún no se ha finalizado y está sujeta a cambios”, pero afirmó que se espera que se voten varios puntos de acción.
Entre esos puntos se encuentra una revisión del “Estatuto para la Protección de Niños y Jóvenes” de la USCCB (“Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People”), adoptada en 2002 a raíz de la aparición de varios escándalos de abusos por parte del clero. Conocido comúnmente como el Estatuto de Dallas (o la Carta de Dallas), el documento establece un conjunto exhaustivo de procedimientos para abordar las denuncias de abuso sexual de menores por parte del clero católico, e incluye directrices para la reconciliación, la sanación, la rendición de cuentas y la prevención del abuso.
Sin especificar la revisión propuesta, la USCCB indicó en su comunicado que el punto del orden del día se refiere a “elementos de la Carta que los obispos han determinado que necesitan mejoras o un mayor desarrollo”.
La revisión “se alinearía con la intención original de la Carta de salvaguardar a los menores”, al tiempo que reafirma el “compromiso continuo” de la USCCB con la prevención del abuso y el establecimiento de mecanismos para responder a las denuncias, señaló el comunicado.
La USCCB señaló que su Comité para la Protección de Niños y Jóvenes, presidido por el obispo Barry C. Knestout de Richmond, Virginia, busca “equilibrar su atención y sensibilidad hacia las víctimas sobrevivientes, con una conciencia del debido proceso, los derechos de los acusados” y “los aspectos pertinentes” del derecho canónico y otros documentos clave sobre el manejo de las denuncias de abuso por parte del clero.
El comunicado de prensa citó en particular “Vox Estis Lux Mundi” (“Sois la luz del mundo”), el motu proprio del Papa Francisco que establece los procedimientos jurídicos a nivel mundial sobre cómo debe actuar la Iglesia ante los casos de abuso sexual por parte del clero, incluidos los incidentes que involucran a adultos vulnerables y los procedimientos para investigar a los obispos.
Además, los obispos considerarán las posibles revisiones de los estatutos a la luz del Vademécum de junio de 2022 del Dicasterio para la Doctrina de la Fe del Vaticano, o guía para obispos, sobre los procedimientos para manejar los casos de abuso por parte del clero.
También figuran en la agenda las consultas episcopales para dos causas de canonización: la de monseñor Joseph Francis Buh, un sacerdote misionero esloveno del siglo XIX que prestó su ministerio al pueblo ojibwe del norte de Minnesota; y la de John Rick Miller, un empresario estadounidense del siglo XX que fundó For the Love of God Worldwide, una asociación privada de fieles que promueve la consagración a Dios a través del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y el Inmaculado Corazón de María.
Las consultas forman parte del proceso establecido por la Iglesia para las evaluaciones de santidad. Si se obtiene la aprobación de la Santa Sede tras las consultas, el obispo diocesano puede convocar un tribunal diocesano para examinar más a fondo la vida del candidato.
El Comité de Culto Divino de la USCCB completará los puntos de acción de la agenda, presentando fragmentos de dos textos para su consideración: una nueva edición del Leccionario para la Misa, que proporciona las lecturas de las Escrituras y el salmo para la liturgia de cada día; y el Suplemento del Misal Romano-Liturgia de las Horas de 2025.
En la reunión de noviembre de la USCCB, el obispo Steven J. Lopes, presidente del Comité de Culto Divino, anunció que el Vaticano había aprobado una nueva edición de la Liturgia de las Horas, la antigua oración litúrgica diaria de la Iglesia que combina las Escrituras, los textos sagrados y los himnos para el culto en diversas horas.
La asamblea de primavera también incluirá actualizaciones sobre una serie de temas adicionales, dijo la USCCB en su comunicado.
Los obispos debatirán sobre la implementación y la evaluación del Sínodo sobre la sinodalidad, así como sobre las opiniones recabadas en los diálogos celebrados en noviembre en torno a “Formando la conciencia para ser ciudadanos files”, el documento doctrinal de la USCCB sobre la responsabilidad política de los católicos.
Además, analizarán el 25.º aniversario de la implementación de “Ex Corde Ecclesia”, la constitución apostólica de San Juan Pablo II sobre las universidades católicas.
Las discusiones también examinarán la pastoral carcelaria católica; la participación de la USCCB en la Novena Intercontinental Guadalupana en honor al 500.º aniversario de las apariciones marianas en lo que hoy es la Ciudad de México; y la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud 2027, que tendrá lugar en Seúl, Corea del Sur.
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– (OSV News) – La agenda de los obispos católicos de Estados Unidos para su reunión anual de primavera incluye temas como protocolos de entorno seguro, causas de canonización, el sínodo sobre la sinodalidad y la consagración de los Estados Unidos al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. La Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos se reunirá del 10 al 12 de junio para una asamblea plenaria de primavera en Orlando, Florida. Las sesiones públicas de la reunión, que tendrán lugar el 10 y 11 de junio, se transmitirán en vivo a través del sitio web de la USCCB (como se
![Joyful Bishop confirms 59 youth at Passaic Polish parish #Catholic - A spirit of joy filled the Shrine of St. John Paul II/Holy Rosary Parish in Passaic, N.J., on May 31 as Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated Mass and confirmed 59 parish youth.
The Mass was concelebrated by Father A. Stefan Las, pastor of Holy Rosary, which serves a Polish Catholic community, along with Father Michal Dykalski, the parish’s parochial vicar.
Both Father Las and Father Dykalski used social media to congratulate the youth.
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On behalf of the youth, the priests posted a prayer on social media: “May the Holy Spirit, whose gifts you have received today, guide you throughout your life, strengthen you in your faith, fill you with courage and wisdom, and help you discover the beauty of everyday life with the Lord God. May his light show you the right path and his grace support you in making good decisions and realizing your dreams.”
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Joyful Bishop confirms 59 youth at Passaic Polish parish #Catholic – 
A spirit of joy filled the Shrine of St. John Paul II/Holy Rosary Parish in Passaic, N.J., on May 31 as Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated Mass and confirmed 59 parish youth.
The Mass was concelebrated by Father A. Stefan Las, pastor of Holy Rosary, which serves a Polish Catholic community, along with Father Michal Dykalski, the parish’s parochial vicar.
Both Father Las and Father Dykalski used social media to congratulate the youth.
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On behalf of the youth, the priests posted a prayer on social media: “May the Holy Spirit, whose gifts you have received today, guide you throughout your life, strengthen you in your faith, fill you with courage and wisdom, and help you discover the beauty of everyday life with the Lord God. May his light show you the right path and his grace support you in making good decisions and realizing your dreams.”
BEACON PHOTOS | JOE GIGLI
– A spirit of joy filled the Shrine of St. John Paul II/Holy Rosary Parish in Passaic, N.J., on May 31 as Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated Mass and confirmed 59 parish youth. The Mass was concelebrated by Father A. Stefan Las, pastor of Holy Rosary, which serves a Polish Catholic community, along with Father Michal Dykalski, the parish’s parochial vicar. Both Father Las and Father Dykalski used social media to congratulate the youth. Click here to subscribe to our weekly newsletter. On behalf of the youth, the priests posted a prayer on social media: “May the Holy Spirit, whose gifts
The gathering will function as “a space for mutual listening, discernment, and shared exploration of certain issue,” Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said.
Beyond The Beacon podcast 113: Bishop Kevin Sweeney shares opportunities to grow in faith #Catholic – 
Learn about some “opportunities” to grow in faith individually and through community in the Diocese of Paterson and beyond. Ways to get involved include the Corpus Christi Food Drive, Consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, and priesthood ordination.
Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney and Communications Director/Beacon Editor Jai Agnish also discuss Pope Leo’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence, “Magnifica Humanitas,” and the upcoming U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops June plenary assembly in Orlando, Fla.
Listen to the episode here, or on any major podcast platform, or watch it on Bishop Sweeney’s YouTube channel.
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– Learn about some “opportunities” to grow in faith individually and through community in the Diocese of Paterson and beyond. Ways to get involved include the Corpus Christi Food Drive, Consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, and priesthood ordination. Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney and Communications Director/Beacon Editor Jai Agnish also discuss Pope Leo’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence, “Magnifica Humanitas,” and the upcoming U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops June plenary assembly in Orlando, Fla. Listen to the episode here, or on any major podcast platform, or watch it on Bishop Sweeney’s YouTube channel. Click here to
While Christians are being slaughtered and kidnapped on a daily basis in Nigeria, Christians are also being massacred in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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The cause of death for the missing scientist who was discovered dead in a New Mexico forest has been reportedly revealed, but it is simply raising more questions.
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On June 3, a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a second, expanded set of charges building on an original April 21 indictment, alleging that $4.1 million in tax-exempt funds paid informants inside extremist organizations who then recruited new members and purchased materials for cross burnings and Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods.
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Read MoreA reading from the Book of Deuteronomy
8:2-3, 14b-16a
Moses said to the people:
"Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God,
has directed all your journeying in the desert,
so as to test you by affliction
and find out whether or not it was your intention
to keep his commandments.
He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger,
and then fed you with manna,
a food unknown to you and your fathers,
in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live,
but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.
"Do not forget the LORD, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that place of slavery;
who guided you through the vast and terrible desert
with its saraph serpents and scorpions,
its parched and waterless ground;
who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
and fed you in the desert with manna,
a food unknown to your fathers."
A reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians
10:16-17
Brothers and sisters:
The cup of blessing that we bless,
is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?
The bread that we break,
is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Because the loaf of bread is one,
we, though many, are one body,
for we all partake of the one loaf.
From the Gospel according to John
6:51-58
Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world."
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,
"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them,
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life,
and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,
whoever eats this bread will live forever."
Christ is God’s answer to our human hunger, because his Body is the bread of eternal life: Take this and eat of it, all of you! Jesus’ invitation reflects our daily experience: in order to remain alive, we need to nourish ourselves with life, drawing it from plants and animals. Yet eating something dead reminds us that we too, no matter how much we eat, will one day die. On the other hand, when we partake of Jesus, the living and true Bread, we live for him. By offering himself completely, the crucified and risen Lord delivers himself into our hands, and we realize that we were made to partake of God. Our hungry nature bears the mark of a need that is satisfied by the grace of the Eucharist. As Saint Augustine writes, Christ is truly bread that restores and does not run short; bread that can be eaten but not exhausted. The Eucharist, in fact, is the true, real, and substantial presence of the Saviour (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1413), who transforms bread into himself in order to transform us into himself. Living and life-giving, the Corpus Domini makes us, the Church herself, the Body of the Lord. (Pope Leo XIV, Homily, 22 June 2025)
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Safe environment, sainthood causes and Sacred Heart on agenda for US bishops’ meeting #Catholic – 
(OSV News) — The nation’s Catholic bishops have a full agenda for their annual spring meeting, with topics including safe environment protocols, sainthood causes, the Synod on Synodality and the consecration of the U.S. to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will gather June 10-12 for a spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Florida.
The public sessions of the meeting, which will take place June 10 and 11, will be livestreamed through the USCCB’s website at usccb.org, according to a May 18 press release issued by the conference.
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City will open the public sessions with his first address as USCCB president, having been elected during the conference’s annual fall meeting in November 2025.
Also addressing the bishops will be Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia, who was appointed as papal nuncio to the U.S. in March, having previously served as the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations. Archbishop Caccia succeeded Cardinal Christophe Pierre, who turned 80 in January and had served in the post since 2016.
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The USCCB noted in its release that the agenda for the June assembly “has not yet been finalized and is subject to change,” but stated that votes are expected on several action items.
Among those items are a revision to the USCCB’s “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” adopted in 2002 as a number of clerical abuse scandals emerged. Commonly called the Dallas Charter, the document lays out a comprehensive set of procedures for addressing allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy, and includes guidelines for reconciliation, healing, accountability and prevention of abuse.
Without specifying the proposed revision, the USCCB said in its release that the agenda item regards “elements of the Charter that the bishops have determined are in need of improvement or further development.”
The revision would “align with the Charter’s original intention of safeguarding minors,” while affirming the USCCB’s “continued commitment” to preventing abuse and providing mechanisms to respond to allegations, said the release.
The USCCB said its Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People — which is chaired by Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Virginia — seeks “to balance its care of and sensitivity to victim-survivors, with an awareness of due-process, the rights of the accused,” and “pertinent aspects” of canon law and other key documents on handling clergy abuse allegations.
The press release cited in particular “Vox Estis Lux Mundi” (“You are the light of the world”), Pope Francis’ motu proprio outlining global legal procedures for how the church should deal with clergy sexual abuse, including incidents involving vulnerable adults and procedures for investigating bishops.
In addition, the bishops will consider the potential charter revisions in light of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s June 2022 Vademecum, or guidebook for bishops, on procedures for handling clergy abuse cases.
Also on the agenda are episcopal consultations for two canonization causes: that of Msgr. Joseph Francis Buh, a 19th-century Slovenian missionary priest who ministered to the Ojibwe people of northern Minnesota; and John Rick Miller, a 20th-century American businessman who founded For the Love of God Worldwide, a private association of the faithful promoting consecration to God through the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The consultations are part of the Church’s established process for sainthood evaluations. If approval of the Holy See is obtained following the consultations, the diocesan bishop can convene a diocesan tribunal to examine more fully the life of the candidate.
The USCCB Committee on Divine Worship will round out the agenda’s action items, presenting portions from two texts for consideration: a new edition of the Lectionary for Mass, which provides the Scripture readings and psalm for each day’s liturgy; and the 2025 Roman Missal-Liturgy of the Hours Supplement.
At the USCCB’s November meeting, Bishop Steven J. Lopes, chair of the Committee on Divine Worship, announced that the Vatican had approved a new edition of the Liturgy of the Hours, the Church’s ancient daily liturgical prayer that blends Scripture, sacred texts and hymns for worship at various hours.
The spring assembly will also include updates on a number of additional issues, said the USCCB in its release.
The bishops will discuss the implementation and evaluation of the Synod on Synodality, as well as feedback from their November dialogues on “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” the USCCB’s teaching document on the political responsibility of Catholics.
In addition, they will explore the 25th anniversary of the implementation of “Ex Corde Ecclesia,” St. John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic universities.
Discussions will also examine Catholic prison ministry; the USCCB’s involvement with the Intercontinental Guadalupan Novena honoring the 500th anniversary of the Marian apparitions in what is now Mexico City; and World Youth Day 2027, which will take place in Seoul, South Korea.
Gina Christian is a multimedia reporter for OSV News. Follow her on X @GinaJesseReina.
– (OSV News) — The nation’s Catholic bishops have a full agenda for their annual spring meeting, with topics including safe environment protocols, sainthood causes, the Synod on Synodality and the consecration of the U.S. to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will gather June 10-12 for a spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Florida. The public sessions of the meeting, which will take place June 10 and 11, will be livestreamed through the USCCB’s website at usccb.org, according to a May 18 press release issued by the conference. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City will