Catechesis

Pope Leo XIV: Christ Shows Us Love Conquers Fear

August 27, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

On Morning Air, Ashley Noronha joined John Morales to reflect on Pope Leo XIV’s catechesis from his Wednesday general audience on August 27. The Holy Father turned our attention to the Passion of Christ, particularly the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, where the Lord’s fear and loneliness revealed the depth of His humanity. Even […]

Pope Leo XIV: Reject the Voice of Death, Choose Life

August 26, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality, Morning Air

On the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Leo XIV delivered a homily that urged the faithful to recognize Mary’s courageous “yes” as the model for Christian discipleship. Speaking in Rome, the Holy Father reminded the Church that while death continues to cast its shadow, God’s life-giving love breaks through whenever His people choose trust, forgiveness, […]

Pope Leo on Judas: Betrayal, Freedom, and the Call to Repentance

August 25, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

At a recent general audience, Pope Leo turned to one of the most haunting moments in the Gospel: the betrayal of Jesus at the Last Supper. Reflecting on Mark 14, the Holy Father pointed to the words that unsettled the apostles when Christ said, “One of you will betray me.” Each one, troubled in heart, […]

The Feast of the Transfiguration

August 6, 2025August 5, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

The Church celebrates many feasts that recall important events in the life of Jesus. We have His birth, His Presentation in the Temple, His Baptism in the Jordan River, the Last Supper, and His Crucifixion and Resurection. But there is only one event between His Baptism and the Last Supper that we celebrate with a […]

Why You Should Get Married in the Church

July 30, 2025February 10, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, Morning Air

So many couples today decide to get married outside of a church, while others decide not to get married at all and just live together. Catholic family speaker and evangelist Damon Owens joined John Morales on Morning Air to speak on the importance of the sanctity and longevity of marriage. Owens began by saying that […]

What is the difference between the Catholic Faith and the Lutheran Faith?

July 17, 2025February 10, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, Father Simon Says

A listener recently wrote in to share a surprising experience: she had given her Lutheran neighbor a ride to church and, since she had already been to Mass, decided to sit in on the Lutheran service. What surprised her was how familiar it felt. She noticed women veiling and others kneeling for Communion. When she […]

From Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV Addresses “Loving Thy Neighbor”

July 16, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, News and Culture, Relevant In Rome

This past Sunday, Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Angelus and catechesis from Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence nestled among the Alban Hills. The quiet town, celebrated as one of “I Borghi più belli d’Italia” (“the most beautiful villages of Italy”), held a deeper meaning as it played host to the Holy Father’s latest reflections […]

FROM ROME: Pope Leo XIV Speaks on the Need for True Witnesses, Not Box-Checkers

July 9, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Relevant In Rome

Ashley Noronha, joining Morning Air from Rome, spoke with John Morales about Pope Leo’s most recent address after the Angelus on Sunday. He reflected on the Gospel of Luke 10:1-12, 17-20, where Jesus sends His seventy-two disciples ahead of Him to prepare the way. In his catechesis, the Holy Father emphasized the difference between passive […]

The Feast of the Sacred Heart

June 27, 2025June 25, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

From 1673 to 1675 Jesus appeared to a French nun, a member of the Visitation Order that was founded in 1610. We are concluding the 350th anniversary celebrations of those apparitions with the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, a feast that Jesus Himself requested. St. Margaret Mary, to whom Jesus appeared, said […]

Pursuing God’s Healing and the Jubilee of Seminarians, Bishops, and Priests

June 26, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, News and Culture, Relevant In Rome

During his General Audience on Wednesday, June 26th, Pope Leo XIV offered a powerful reflection on two intertwined miracles from Chapter 5 of the Gospel of Mark: the healing of the hemorrhaging woman and the raising of Jairus’ daughter. Rome correspondent Ashley Noronha and Glen Lewerenz discussed the Pope’s catechesis on Relevant in Rome, highlighting […]

Corpus Christi: Celebrating the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

June 19, 2025July 8, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

In the 13th Century a Norbertine nun named Juliana had a recurring dream in which a full moon appeared with a dark line on it. In time Jesus explained to her that the moon represented the Church with its liturgical calendar and the line represented a feast that was missing in the Church’s annual celebrations. […]

FROM ROME: Pope Leo on Miracle at Bethesda

June 18, 2025July 1, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality, Relevant In Rome

On Wednesday, June 18th, Pope Leo XIV delivered a stirring general audience that centered on the Gospel account of Jesus healing the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, as found in John’s Gospel, Chapter 5. John Morales and Rome correspondent Ashley Noronha explored the pope’s message in depth, unpacking its powerful implications for a weary […]

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