On June 29, 2026, the Nordic Bishops' Conference told parish priests across five countries that no Catholic is exempt from the Church's prohibition on Freemasonry. For Pål Nes, EWTN Norway's editor-in-chief, the ruling confirmed a choice he had already made — and his account points toward what the psychology of identity has been documenting for decades about values congruence and personal integration.
Tim Clark's commentary in the National Catholic Register asks whether a machine can do what a person does when they speak truth from their own soul. Catholic anthropology and decades of psychotherapy outcome research converge on the same answer: the therapeutic encounter depends on one person giving something of themselves to another, and that act cannot be outsourced.
When a devastating earthquake buried Dayana Patiño under a collapsed building, she lay in the dark cradling her 18-day-old son Juan David — and found a Bible beneath her body. Her survival is a story about hope, and what the human person draws on when survival is not guaranteed.
On June 29, 2026, the Nordic Bishops' Conference told parish priests across five countries that no Catholic is exempt from the Church's prohibition on Freemasonry. For Pål Nes, EWTN Norway's editor-in-chief, the ruling confirmed a choice he had already made — and his account points toward what the psychology of identity has been documenting for decades about values congruence and personal integration.
Tim Clark's commentary in the National Catholic Register asks whether a machine can do what a person does when they speak truth from their own soul. Catholic anthropology and decades of psychotherapy outcome research converge on the same answer: the therapeutic encounter depends on one person giving something of themselves to another, and that act cannot be outsourced.
On June 15, UK Secretary of State Liz Kendall announced legislation that 'will ban social media companies providing their services to under 16s,' following Australia's model and expected in early 2026. Catholic bishops across England, Wales, and Scotland responded with qualified support, pressing for legislative detail before full endorsement. The deeper question the debate surfaces is what genuine child protection actually requires — and why access restrictions alone cannot answer it.
In June 2026, the Vatican Observatory brought together leading physicists to work on one of science's genuinely unsolved problems: how to make quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity speak the same mathematical language. The point where those two theories break down together turns out to say something worth noting about what the human mind can and cannot grasp.