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A composite photo of Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman and Jordan Peterson
Arts & CultureIdeas
Nathan Schneider
​After B-list careers in their primary professions, these men have found their callings in the earbuds of the young.
Briana, a 1-year-old migrant girl from Peru, is carried by her father, Jordan, as they search for an entry point into the United States past a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 2024. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The declaration from the Vatican goes beyond the focus on single issues and throws a spotlight on the much broader field of violations of human dignity.
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, particularly the tools of repetition and organization, says John Baldovin, S.J. But also, he adds with hyperbolic emphasis, “you have to read, read, read, read, read and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.”
Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar of Rome, at the beginning of a meeting with priests and deacons working in the Diocese of Rome Jan. 13, 2024, in Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Major Penitentiary is sometimes referred to as chief confessor of the Catholic Church because he has broad faculties that are reserved to the Holy See to grant pardon and forgiveness for sins for which an ordinary priest or bishop cannot grant absolution.
Arts & CultureFilm
Stephen G. Adubato
Two new films on the lives of Mother Seton and Mother Cabrini are placing the spotlight on lesser-emphasized aspects of these holy women’s lives.
FaithScripture Reflections
James T. Keane
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, by James T. Keane
FaithScripture Reflections
Sebastian Gomes
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Sebastian Gomes
FaithScripture Reflections
Simcha Fisher
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Christopher Robles
A Reflection for Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, by Kevin Christopher Robles
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for Saturday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kevin Clarke
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
In 2014, the American journalist James Foley was beheaded by ISIS terrorists. His mother Diane joins ‘Jesuitical’ this week to discuss his vocation, her enduring faith and a radical act of mercy.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Amir Hussain
What we do as teachers is a sacred trust. Coach Wooden helped me to do that in my Jesuit setting.
Arts & CultureBooks
Diane Scharper
Somerset Maugham's short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.
Pope Francis and Argentine President Javier Milei share a laugh after the Mass for the canonization St. Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 11, 2024. She is the first female saint from Argentina. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Agren
Pope Francis has been managing church-state relations well since Javier Milei’s election, while the church hierarchy in Argentina has kept a cautious and skeptical distance from the country’s new leader.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
As much as ‘The Tree of Life’ is about a family, it’s just as much about Jack’s relationship with God, and how it changes as he grows.
FaithFaith in Focus
Grace Etterbeek
The church’s respect for marriage should never supersede its respect for the lives and safety of the people who enter into that sacrament. It’s time for the church to do more to speak up for abused women.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Every diocese, Catholic religious order and institution in the world must have clear safeguarding guidelines and procedures and that they are publicly accessible, the new guidelines reaffirm.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Paul Mariani
Lonely, cold, but stubborn, it had somehow managed to rise up from the half-frozen, slowly thawing soil.
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton speaks on Jan. 11, 2006, at a press conference in Columbus, Ohio. Gumbleton, a Catholic bishop in Detroit who for decades was an international voice against war and racism and an advocate for labor and social justice, died Thursday, April 4, 2024. He was 94. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
FaithNews
Ed White - Associated Press
Bishop Gumbleton became a national religious figure in the 1960s when he was urged by activist priests to oppose the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. He was a founding leader of Pax Christi USA, an American Catholic peace movement.
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
A court decision in Canada crossed a regrettable, if predictable, redline. For the first time, a young woman successfully applied to proceed with medical assistance in dying based on her autism diagnosis.