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Daily Bread | Sunday, March 29, 2026

Good Sunday morning. The world kept moving overnight. Here's what happened, and what your faith has to say about it.

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From the Holy Father

Pope Leo XIV

Pope at Palm Sunday Mass: 'Jesus does not listen to prayers of those who wage war'

On Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV presided at Mass and declared that Jesus, the King of Peace, rejects war and refuses to listen to the prayers of those who wage war. This is a direct papal statement responding to global conflict and aligns with today's top headline about the Pope rejecting claims that God justifies war.

Homily During Major Liturgical Season | Response to World Events

Today's Gospel

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Phil2:8-9

"Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory. Christ was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all names."

Rosary Mystery of the Day

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Today's Mysteries

Sunday: Glorious Mysteries

Glorious Mysteries

1. The Resurrection
2. The Ascension
3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit
4. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
5. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Defend the Faith

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Apologetics

Scripture & Tradition

The Objection

"The Bible is the only authority Christians need. Catholics added Tradition as a way to sneak in teachings that aren't biblical."

The Catholic Response

Scripture itself says otherwise. In 2 Thessalonians 2:15, Paul commands believers to 'hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.' The Bible didn't fall from the sky as a finished product; the Church spent centuries discerning which books belonged in it, guided by the same Tradition skeptics want to discard. The Catechism (CCC 80-82) teaches that Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition flow from the same divine wellspring and together make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God, entrusted to the Church.

CCC 80-82 | 2 Thessalonians 2:15 | CCC 120

Daily Trivia

Test Your Faith IQ

Liturgy

On Palm Sunday, the congregation hears the full Passion narrative read aloud. In the traditional liturgy, the congregation itself speaks specific lines. Whose words does the congregation voice?

A) The disciples
B) The crowd calling for crucifixion
C) Pontius Pilate
D) The Roman soldiers

Answer at the bottom of this newsletter.

Faith & The World

Pope Leo rejects claims that God justifies war during Palm S

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ABC News

Pope Leo rejects claims that God justifies war during Palm Sunday Mass

Pope Leo XIV used his Palm Sunday homily to declare that God never justifies war, echoing Jesus's rejection of violence even at the cost of his own life.

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FAITH & THE WORLD

Matthew 26:52

"Then Jesus said to him, 'Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.'"

CCC 2308-2309 (Strict conditions for legitimate defense / Just War Doctrine)

The Church has always taught that war is a defeat for humanity, not a tool of divine will. Even the just war tradition in CCC 2309 exists not to greenlight conflict but to set conditions so strict they function as a brake, because the Christ who entered Jerusalem on a donkey chose a cross over a cavalry charge.

Reflect → Where in your own life are you using God's name to justify a fight he never endorsed?

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CBS News

Millions turn out for "No Kings" rallies held worldwide to protest against Trump

An estimated 8 million people joined over 3,300 worldwide protests under the banner 'No Kings' to challenge what organizers call authoritarian overreach by President Trump.

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FAITH & THE WORLD

1 Samuel 8:11-18

"He said, 'The governance of the king who will rule you will be as follows: He will take your sons and assign them to his chariots... He will tithe your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves.'"

CCC 1898-1899 (Authority and the Common Good)

God warned Israel that kings would serve themselves before serving the people, and the Church has never forgotten the lesson. The Catechism is blunt: authority is legitimate only when it seeks the common good and is exercised within the limits of the moral order (CCC 1901).

Reflect → Do you measure the leaders you support by the standard of service, or by the standard of power?

Gina Gershon walked away from cult horror franchise over 'ex

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Fox News

Gina Gershon walked away from cult horror franchise over 'exploitative' topless scene

Actress Gina Gershon reveals she turned down a role in 'Friday the 13th Part 2' because the script required nudity she found exploitative.

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FAITH & THE WORLD

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price."

Theology of the Body (St. John Paul II) / CCC 2524

John Paul II taught that the opposite of love is not hatred but use, the reduction of a person to an instrument of someone else's gain. Saying no to exploitation, even at professional cost, is an act of self-possession that the Theology of the Body calls essential to authentic freedom (CCC 2524).

Reflect → When was the last time you said no to something profitable because it cost you your dignity?

Good In The World

[GOOD NEWS] Good News in History, March 29

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Good News Network

[GOOD NEWS] Good News in History, March 29

155 years ago today, London's Royal Albert Hall opened its doors and has since hosted over 390 shows a year, becoming one of the world's greatest stages for human artistry.

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FAITH & GOOD NEWS

Psalm 150:3-5

"Praise him with blast of trumpet, praise him with harp and lyre. Praise him with timbrel and dance, praise him with strings and pipe. Praise him with crashing cymbals."

CCC 2501 (Sacred Art and Beauty as a Path to God)

The Catechism teaches that genuine art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in creation and that beauty is a path to the transcendent (CCC 2501-2502). Every concert hall that makes space for beauty is, whether it knows it or not, making space for the echo of the One who sang the world into being.

Reflect → What piece of music or art has brought you closest to a sense of the sacred?

[GOOD NEWS] Knowing the difference between 'being loved' and

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Upworthy

[GOOD NEWS] Knowing the difference between 'being loved' and 'feeling loved' is the secret to happiness

Psychologists say distinguishing between the objective fact of being loved and the subjective feeling of it can transform your sense of well-being.

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FAITH & GOOD NEWS

Romans 8:38-39

"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities... nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

CCC 733 (The Holy Spirit and God's Love Poured into Our Hearts)

Paul didn't say you'll always feel God's love. He said nothing can separate you from it. The whole spiritual life, as the Catechism reminds us (CCC 733), rests on the reality that God's love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, not as a feeling we generate but as a fact we receive.

Reflect → Can you trust that you are loved by God even on the days you feel absolutely nothing?

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Saint of the Day

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Saint of the Day

March 30

Blessed Ludovico of Casoria

This 19th-century Franciscan priest used to buy enslaved African children at market in Naples, not to own them but to free them, baptize them (if they chose), and educate them. He founded over 200 charitable works and was considered so chaotic in his generosity that his superiors once tried to stop him. He cheerfully ignored them.

On Palm Sunday, when Jesus rides into Jerusalem as a king who serves, Ludovico's whole life was a refusal to let power be anything other than service to the most vulnerable.

Trivia Answer

B . The congregation plays the crowd shouting 'Crucify him!' This is deliberate liturgical theology: it forces every person in the pews to confront their own complicity in sin rather than standing at a comfortable distance from the story.

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