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Zip-a-dee-doo-dah Day. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker John Boehner greet Pope Francis in Washington in this Sept. 24, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Drew Angerer, EPA)
News
Catholic News Service
"It is a good time to remind ourselves what lives dedicated to genuine public service in politics look like. We find it in the lives of Vice President Biden and Speaker Boehner."
Oksana Vydash holds on to her goddaughter Veronika Victoria Shalai during her baptism at St. Mary's Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church in St. Louis in this Jan. 12, 2013, file photo. (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review)
News
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The number of baptized Catholics reached 1.27 billion or 17.8 percent of the global population.
First Lady Nancy Reagan, July 6, 1921-March 6, 2016
In All Things
Joseph McAuley
The day Ronald Reagan died was the day when Nancy Reagan really died.
Assyrian Christians, who had fled Syria and Iraq, carry placards and wave Assyrian flags during a gathering in late May in front of U.N. headquarters in Beirut. (CNS photo/Nabil Mounzer, EPA)
In All Things
The Editors
Join us Wednesday, March 30, at the Sheen Center in New York City.
Yemeni pro-government fighters guard outside a Missionaries of Charity elderly home March 4 after unidentified gunmen targeted the home in Aden, Yemen. Four Missionaries of Charity and 10 to 12 other people were killed in the attack. (CNS photo/EPA)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The pope prayed Mother Teresa would accompany into paradise these four “martyrs of charity.”
News
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Four Missionaries of Charity and 10 to 12 other people at a home the sisters operate for the elderly and disabled in Aden, Yemen.
Current Comment
The Editors
We should step back to consider the best policy going forward.
Philadelphia, PA USA - November 24, 2014; A young protester and his mother are seen holding signs at Dillworth Park at Philadelphia City Hall. (photo by Bas Slabbers/Istockphoto)
Current Comment
The Editors
Bigotry has its roots not just in 1860 or 1960 but in modern institutions and hearts.
Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
"We ask the Lord for the grace of fidelity. And the first step on this path towards fidelity is to admit you are a sinner.”
Thomas Lynch and Alice McDermott at Fordham University (Leo Sorel/Fordham News).
Arts & Culture
Alice McDermottThomas Lynch
Two Irish-American writers engage questions of mortality with the sense of humor proper to a wake.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.
Thomas Petriano
Cutting religion programs is a trend at odds with the needs and questions of our students.
Books
Robert E. Scully
'Agents of Empire,' by Noel Malcolm
Books
'Between the World and Me,' by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Arts & CultureBooks
John A. Coleman
'Inventing American Religion,' by Robert Wuthnow
The Word
John W. Martens
“He saved others; let him save himself”
MOTHER AND CHILD. Sara Lazzaro as Mary and Adam Greaves-Neal as Jesus in “The Young Messiah”
Film
John Anderson
A convergence of belief and fact; this is the key to two new films about Jesus.
Pope Francis gestures as he answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Bangui, Central African Republic, to Rome Nov. 30. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Editorials
The Editors
The pope’s clever response to 'the Trump question' is instructive.
Letters
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