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Politics & SocietyCurrent Comment
The Editors
It is surprising to see Mark Zuckerberg employ a moral defense of free speech.
Politics & SocietyCurrent Comment
The Editors
The construction of an oil pipeline under a river that supplies drinking water to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has created a 19th-century-style showdown over territorial lands and treaty rights.
Politics & SocietyCurrent Comment
The Editors
"We don’t want terrorists obtaining green cards and citizenship through marriage.”
The Basilica of St. Benedict in the ancient city of Norcia is seen on Oct. 31, 2016 following an earthquake in central Italy. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Remo Casilli
FaithNews
Josephine McKenna - Religion News Service
The quake felled several significant churches including the 14th-century Basilica of St. Benedict in the main square of Norcia.
Faith
Sean Salai
Apart from restricting life choices among young Catholics, debt also creates new relationship structures within their families based on guilt and co-dependence rather than on love.
Faith
Edward J. Weisenburger
The predatory loan industry’s lobby is powerful, and legislation is often gutted of any real power to protect the vulnerable.
Syrian refugees arrive at a camp after crossing into the Jordanian side of the northeast Jordan-Syria border near Royashed. (CNS photo/Jamal Nasrallah, EPA)
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Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
"The cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Middle East has become the theater of incredible brutality," said Archbishop Bernardito Auza.
Politics & Society
Elizabeth Dias
Today the pulse of American spiritual life is shifting. There is not just one pulse.
Arts & CultureBooks
Colby Dickinson
Learning to see Girard as an “unlikely apologist” for the Christian story does not undermine orthodox faith—it is an extremely viable path forward.
FaithDispatches
David J. Michael
Pope Francis is in Sweden today to mark the start of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
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James Martin, S.J.
Todos nosotros somos imperfectos, pecadores amados que seguimos la llamada que oímos por primera vez en nuestros bautismos.
FaithFeatures
James Martin, S.J.
We are all pilgrims on the way, loved sinners following the call we first heard at our baptisms.
The ecumenical commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017 can be a time to celebrate that Christians are no longer "on the path of separation, but that of unity," Cardinal Kasper wrote in a new book. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Christian unity requires conversion: "It needs conversion of the papacy, conversion of bishops, conversion of Lutherans and of Catholics."
FaithNews
Donis Tracy - Catholic News Service
The seminary will buy back more than 13,000 square feet of space from Boston College.
FaithNews
Joyce Duriga - Catholic News Service
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would do this with the Cubs and be a priest," said Father Burke Masters.
FaithNews
Karl Ritter - Associated PressNicole Winfield - Associated Press
Sweden's small Catholic community is growing, mainly due to immigration.
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The Editors
¿Cómo puede la Iglesia continuar a sostener sus ministerios y ser testigo de las verdades eternas de su enseñanza si sus propios empleados no las aceptan todas?
Faith
Pope Francis
On Oct. 31 the pope will participate in a ceremony to mark 500 years since the start of the Reformation.
FaithIn All Things
Wyatt Massey

My mind echoes a chant: Don’t look at your phone. Whatever you do, don’t look at your phone.

I am sitting on a bench in New York’s Upper East Side. Parents push strollers along the narrow sidewalk, their hands busy scrolling through the feed of a smartphone. A woman jogs through the falling multi-colored leaves. The cord of her headphones strings down to an armband. A boy rolls past on a scooter, his father in tow, head buried in a smartphone app.

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Juan Luis Calderón
Jesús vino a Jericó a buscar y salvar lo que se había perdido (Lc 19:10). Pero si lo perdido no desea ser encontrado, no hay mucho que se pueda hacer. Tal no fue el caso de Zaqueo. Éste se puso en posición no sólo de ver a Jesús, sino de ser visto. La puerta de la salvación que llegó a la casa de Zaqueo fue su humildad.