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October 18, 5:00 pm
In Florida panhandle a local church steps up after Hurricane Michael
By Atena Sherry
October 18, 4:59 pm
Pro-life Catholic women support Trump’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood
By Colleen Zewe
October 18, 3:59 pm
Review: The feuding fathers of the Democratic Party
By Maurice Timothy Reidy
October 18, 12:36 pm
African cardinal: Your iPhone is feeding the global arms trade
By Michael J. O’Loughlin
October 18, 12:05 pm
Pope Francis expresses willingness to visit North Korea
By Gerard O’Connell
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News and Analysis
Feds open clergy abuse probe in Pennsylvania
By Maryclaire Dale — Associated Press
Graveyard mass honors Mexican women who pursued truth about drug war victims
By Jan-Albert Hootsen
Why can’t women vote at the Synod on Young People?
By Colleen Dulle
James K. A. Smith’s Theological Journey
By Patrick Gilger, S.J.
Pope Francis

Pope Francis expresses willingness to visit North Korea

The pope said he would visit North Korea “if an official invitation arrives.”
By Gerard O’Connell

Pope: God wants change in church stricken by perversion of clericalism

Catholics need to help the church along a path of "deep spiritual renewal," Pope Francis told Jesuits from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
By Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
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Reflections on Two L.G.B.T. Questions at the Synod
First, can the synod use the term “L.G.B.T.” in its documents? Second, can the synod acknowledge that gay couples can form a “family”?
James Martin, S.J.October 12, 2018

October 12, 2018
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In Review

Review: “The Wolf House” explores the traumas of childhood abuse

"The Wolf House" is a Chilean political horror film that explores the traumas of childhood abuse.
By Eve Tushnet

Review: “First Man” is an apolitical look into one of history’s biggest moments

Damien Chazelle’s "First Man" is a remarkably idiosyncratic movie, given the usual heroic/fantastic presentation on screen of space travel—or anything involving the heavens.
By John Anderson

Review: The famous Weegee, up close and personal

“People who have never heard of Weegee can describe him,” Bonanos writes, because he created Hollywood’s idea of the newspaper photographer.”
By Eve Tushnet