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FaithScripture Reflections
Kerry Weber
A Reflection for Monday in the Octave of Easter, by Kerry Weber
FaithScripture Reflections
Jackson Goodman
A Reflection for Tuesday in the Octave of Easter, by Jackson Goodman
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, attended the liturgy with his wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, and his three children after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier in the day.
FaithFaith in Focus
Damian Whitney
My Catholic identity and my wife’s Protestant identity continue to endure, and our faith has developed together in greater harmony, knowing that our love for each other was ultimately grounded in our love for God.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Jerry Harp
the wily accuser tempted him in just the way to confuse a savior: All this I will give you.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Reynolds Dixon
Daydreams and memory are saving some Down there from shame
Middle-aged Black woman, seen from behind, sits alone in a pew during Catholic Mass (iStock/abalcazar)
FaithShort Take
William I. Orbih
As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.
FaithOf Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.
Arts & CultureBooks
In 'Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the way it is molded in fiction—and how the novel evolved from the 19th century novel to that of the 20th century.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joe Pagetta
There is joy and heartbreak in Father Charles Strobel's memoir, 'The Kingdom of the Poor,' but mostly joy.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Rachel Lu
We need a healthier public square in which people of all backgrounds can work together.
Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
America's readers weigh in on the president's temperament and conduct.
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Especially when preaching to young people who are stressed, traumatized or incarcerated, Father Greg Boyle has learned: If you’re not telling stories, they’re not listening.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Asked how he was living this Easter period, given his condition and convalescence, Pope Francis replied, “As best I can!”
FaithFaith in Focus
Leilani Fuentes
Lent, as a season of penance and preparation, served as the perfect time to push myself out of my spiritual and physical comfort zone––both for my own sake and for those coming to the performance.
Arts & CultureBooks
Katy Carl
If what we need now is the kind of story that restores wonder to the world, Tara Isabella Burton's 'Here in Avalon' provides one avenue to that destination.
“Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (c. 1825-30), by Caspar David Friedrich (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
FaithFaith in Focus
Maurice Timothy Reidy
It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German landscapes on the Upper East Side.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
FaithInterviews
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
On Good Friday, the role of the preacher is to get out of the way.