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DURING SUMMER LULL, CONSERVATIVE BISHOPS CALL FOR MORE LATIN MASS, LESS SYNODALITY With much of the Vatican curia in summer mode and Pope Leo XIV having just returned to Rome from vacation, conservative cardinals and bishops are taking advantage of the news lull to call for greater access to the Latin Mass and to cast doubt on the ongoing synodal process. THE LITURGY AND VATICAN II: POPE LEO’S RESPONSE TO TRADITIONALISM Amid pressure to loosen restrictions on the “Latin Mass,” Pope Leo XIV responds not by reversing course but by returning to Vatican II as living tradition, prioritizing unity and depolarization.   SYNOD STUDY GROUP 9: “DEBACLE” OR FRUIT OF VATICAN II? The synod’s final report from Study Group 9 was titled “Theological Criteria and Synodal Methodologies for Shared Discernment of Emerging Doctrinal, Pastoral, and Ethical Issues.” It proposed something fundamental to the Church’s life: “a change of paradigm in the way the Church addresses the most difficult doctrinal, pastoral, and ethical questions.” Reactions were hot.   BISHOP DIMARZIO: IMMIGRATION IS WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT On this 250th anniversary, we celebrate our democracy and our achievements as a nation, but at the same time we can never forget that it was because of immigration that we have achieved so much. FROM LEO XIII TO LEO XIV: 135 YEARS OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING In 1891 a pope spoke into the chaos of the Industrial Revolution. In 2026 his namesake spoke into the age of AI. The tradition connecting them is worth knowing. Every document in this tradition, from 1891 to 2026, begins from the same place: the conviction that the human person is made in the image of God. MAGA PUSHES BACK AS POPE LEO XIV DEFENDS PALESTINIANS UNDER SIEGE IN THE WEST BANK Pope Leo XIV courageously returned to the suffering of Palestinians in the West Bank this week, even as MAGA figures in the United States and Israeli voices attack him for doing it. He keeps speaking a basic moral truth: people have the right to live in peace without others ravaging their homes and communities. HAS THE CHURCH IMPOSED A ‘SELF-INTERDICT’ ON ITSELF? Empty churches, mega-parishes, and dwindling Eucharistic celebrations signal a crisis that cannot be reversed without confronting the structures and assumptions that have contributed to the Church’s decline. A HOLY CHORUS Sometimes the stories of women are flattened in Scripture. A new icon of the women of the New Testament has been installed in Mehling Hall’s chapel at the University of Portland takes in the names and faces of the women who played important roles in the early church, and witnesses their stories being restored to their proper place in our spiritual history.