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U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump wave as they walk with their son, Barron, along Pennsylvania Avenue during the Jan. 20 inaugural parade from the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“I don’t like to anticipate what happens or to judge people in advance.”
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Wyatt Massey
Donning “Make America Great Again” hats, some cheered. Others demonstrated with signs and chants.
EspañolLa Palabra
Juan Luis Calderón

Parece que Jesús le tomó gusto a eso de meterse en problemas. Nacer en un pesebre, ser perseguido, huir, el exilio… Después de recordar las peripecias y peligros que tuvo que superar desde su más tierna infancia, a cualquiera le darían ganas de renunciar a la misión.

Politics & SocietyVideo
America Video
Steven McDonald was shot in the line of duty. Then his work began.
(CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
"America First" is a serious threat to the international solidarity that lasting peace and justice require.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Refugees are survivors. As Americans, we share their values.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Francis wrote, "our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding farsighted and united political responses."
Politics & SocietyNews
Matt Volz - Associated Press
Students will visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and a Torah is being mailed every Jewish family in the state.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Jason Blakely
A lesson from philosopher Charles Taylor: the key feature of modern times is pluralism.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin

Moments before Donald J. Trump took the oath of office, becoming the 45th president of the United States, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York read a brief passage from the Book of Wisdom.

“Give us wisdom, for we are your servants, weak and short lived, lacking in comprehension of judgement and of laws,” the cardinal said, reciting Solomon’s Prayer from the Book of Wisdom. “Indeed, though one might be perfect among mortals, if wisdom, which comes from you, be lacking, we count for nothing.”

St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Donald J. Trump's inauguration as president
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Wyatt MasseyTeresa Donnellan
“We talk about peace around the world, but we need peace here.”
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
The concept of God is both utterly reasonable yet absolutely unimaginable.
Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Though clearly a commercial venture, Lust nonetheless makes sad reading and raises some questions.
A young girl peeks through signs she is holding as she walks through downtown Chicago during the city's Jan. 18 March for Life. The marchers were calling for an end to abortion. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Jane Sloan Peters
To feminists of a certain cloth, the pro-life mentality is not an opposing view. It is an intrinsic evil, in all circumstances inexcusable, even abhorrent.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The week of prayer, Pope Francis said, urges Catholics and Lutherans to reconcile and "draw closer to one another anew through conversion."
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
The percentage of pregnancies ending in abortion is down to 18.8 percent, a decline of nearly two-fifths below is 1983 peak of 30.3 percent.
Politics & SocietyNews
Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press
The main Irish Catholic party is demanding an early election.
Barack Obama takes the oath of office for the presidency on January 20, 2009. (Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force, via Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & Society
Jim McDermott
The truth or foolishness of Obama’s hopeful vision of our country rests in the choices we will make.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart

Interfering with another nation’s politics having evidently become a thing, Donald Trump told his interviewer that Britain is “smart” for getting out of the European Union.