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Elizabeth McGovern, center, and Laura Carmichael, right, star in a scene from the movie "Downton Abbey: A New Era." (CNS photo/Ben Blackall, Focus Features)
Arts & CultureFilm
Jim McDermott
The danger with returning to characters who have struggled to find their way and earned their success is that if you don’t have a new story worthy of them, you risk undermining all that they have achieved.
FaithFaith and Reason
Tomás Halík
The world is at war, but we must think about the post-war world. We should not repeat old mistakes and underestimate the spiritual energy of the world’s religions.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives at a campaign stop on April 18, 2022, in Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, Normandy. Ms. Le Pen finished strongly with younger voters in the April 10 preliminary election. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John W. Miller
If Marine Le Pen pulls off an upset in France next weekend, it may be because young voters do not share their parents’ fears about the far right.
FaithNews
Barb Fraze - Catholic News Service
"Euphemistic dressing up, as you try to do in your letter, does not really help."
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, who is in Ukraine as a papal envoy, prays over a mass grave near Borodyanka, Ukraine, April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
On the way back to Kyiv from Borodyanka, a town that had been under control of Russian forces, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski prayed amid the ruins and bodies of those killed, including by an unmarked mass grave, he told Vatican News on April 15.
People gather outside Rome's Colosseum April 19, 2019, before Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church asked Pope Francis to scrap plans to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the pope’s Way of the Cross service.