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December 10, 5:17 pm
The free press gets on the president’s nerves. It’s supposed to.
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December 10, 5:05 pm
Lessons from John Allen Chau (and Francis Xavier) for Catholic missions today
By James T. Keane
December 10, 4:54 pm
Thomas Merton’s Obituary from 1969
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December 10, 2:56 pm
Fr. James Martin, S.J.: What do you desire this Advent?
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Inside the Supreme Court’s latest case on cruelty and the death penalty
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News and Analysis
Head of 9/11 Commission on five ways to prevent the spread of terrorism
By Tom Kean
Who will give Asia Bibi asylum? A blasphemy case in Pakistan puts Britain in a difficult spot
By David Stewart
As immigration denial rates increase, asylum seekers face setback at U.S. border
By J.D. Long-García
Law without conscience ignores our humanity
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Pope Francis

Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi in February to promote peace

Francis is the first pope to visit the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, a majority-Muslim country of 10 million people.
By Gerard O’Connell

In new book, Pope Francis says he is worried about homosexuality in the priesthood

Pope Francis has been quoted as saying that having gays in the clergy "is something that worries me" and remarking that some societies are considering homosexuality a "fashionable" lifestyle.
By The Associated Press
Jennifer Jones and Vincent Price in ‘The Song of Bernadette' (photo: alamy.com)
A 1940s French film is one of the most Catholic horror movies ever made
"The Song of Bernadette" follows a classic horror-film structure in order to make a theological point that could not be more urgent.
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In Review

A Catholic queen is surprisingly woke in ‘Mary Queen of Scots’

The messages of “Mary” that can be applied to our own age are received early, and often.
By John Anderson

Meet the Palestinian rocker writing love songs and protest anthems

Rasha Nahas: “The story I bring with me being a Palestinian artist born in Haifa.”
By Eloise Blondiau

Andre Dubus’s challenging but beautifully written stories have been reissued

Dubus was an irascible, loyal, loving, smoking, hard-drinking, hard-punching, tender man, who demanded much of himself and others.
By Franklin Freeman