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Two students with Down syndrome pictured in Catholic school uniforms
FaithShort Take
J.D. Flynn
Our parish school has decided that welcoming children with significant disabilities is an important part of its Catholic identity and a big part of forming all children to be disciples of Jesus Christ.
Francis has offered an example to follow in his public rapprochement with Javier Milei, the Argentine president who has repeatedly and caustically criticized the pope. They met at the Vatican on Feb. 12, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Do the divisions of politics occupy our focus more than the unity of Christ’s kingdom? This would be a great tragedy for all those who hear and make their own Christ’s desire that all be one.
St Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, seen from below on a landscaped hill with a giant cross on the front windows (iStock/Susan Vineyard)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Mary Homan
We need Catholic health care to serve the most vulnerable among us. A myopic focus on a few reproductive health procedures ignores broader questions about health care delivery for populations at risk.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Julia G. YoungChristopher Ross
Mother Cabrini became America’s first saint. But was she herself a legal U.S. immigrant? And would her story be possible today? 
FaithShort Take
James F. Keenan
“I do not think that the present anxiety about recognizing the ‘gay’ Catholic is unlike the first-century anxiety regarding the Gentiles becoming Christians,” Jesuit moral theologian James F. Keenan writes.
FaithShort Take
Katie Owens Mulcahy
What could be possible if the gifts of diaconal women were empowered through ordination?