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FaithScripture Reflections
Eric Gregory
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Eric Gregory
FaithNews
Lauretta Brown - OSV News
Catholics across Texas and the world, including Pope Leo XIV, are offering their prayers and support after deadly flooding struck Texas on July 4.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
George Drance, S.J.
Each year at this time, near the Fourth of July, we contemplate freedom. But maybe we are also being called to do an extended examination of our own fears.
FaithFaith and Reason
Thomas J. Massaro
Is it possible to embrace the idea of a special, evenly divinely ordained mission for America without violating Christian ethical principles?
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressSilvia Stellacci - Associated PressDario Artale - Associated Press
Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during his 12-year pontificate.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
A Reflection for Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael Simone, S.J.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Leo XIV named the French archbishop Thibault Verny as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He succeeds Cardinal Seán O’Malley, 81, the emeritus archbishop of Boston.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks with other members of the House July 3, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington after final passage of U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“Deep cuts” to SNAP and Medicaid will “inflict real suffering on these families…. SNAP and Medicaid are not luxuries, they are lifelines for millions of children across our country.”
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
It was one of the first times Leo has spoken unscripted at length in public, responding to questions posed to him by the children.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Christopher Robles
A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Christopher Robles
FaithScripture Reflections
Molly Cahill
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill
FaithNews
Paulina Guzik - OSV News
The Vatican has named the judges that will preside over the trial of disgraced Father Marko Rupnik.
FaithFaith and Reason
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
For so many of us, Roger Haight marked off a breathtakingly wide horizon in which we, agreeing with him or not, could fulfill our mission for God’s people.
Arts & CultureFilm
Grace Copps
Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly also found in the Catholic imagination.
FaithFaith and Reason
Jason King
The world of academic theology is facing the cumulative effect of long-building forces, forces reshaping not only theology but the entire structure of higher education.
Sufjan Stevens performing on stage during a tour for the “Illinois” album (Wikimedia Commons).
Arts & CultureMusic
Christopher Parker
“Illinois” describes a state and a nation in motion, full of complicated human beings who do bad things and good things.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation.”
FaithScripture Reflections
J.D. Long García
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle, by J.D. Long García
A community gathers in resistance. Photo by Dany Díaz Mejía. Photo courtesy of Rene Aleman Resistance Camp.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dany Díaz Mejía
“We are alive only through the grace of God. At one point, I got messages saying someone had offered 1 million lempiras [$38,000] to have me killed.”
Workers unload food commodities from Catholic Relief Services and USAID in the village of Behera, near Tulear, Madagascar, Oct. 22, 2016. (OSV News Photo/Nancy McNally, Catholic Relief Services)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.