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'I suggest that this is the state of the abortion controversy: There is no debate.'
GROUNDWORK. The Eva Perón Foundation (Eva Perón at lower left) provided assistance to children from impoverished backgrounds.
Paul D. McNelis, S.J.
Argentines have experienced a very different form of capitalism.
News
Porfirio Ibarra - Associated PressMark Stevenson - Associated Press
Mexico's deadliest prison riot in many years broke out just six days before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit another Mexican prison.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Clemson University on Wednesday in Pendleton, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Rubio fails to adapt after Iowa.
In All Things
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Catholic universities must scrupulously follow the shared American university norms for faculty and student rights, particularly in times of controversy.
Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, places ashes on Pope Francis' head during Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 10. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
During Ash Wednesday Mass, the pope focused on the theme of mercy as we begin the season of Lent.
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
The first class of 60 students from the Archdiocese of Atlanta has completed a three-year formation program in Spanish through the University of Dallas, earning a pastoral theology certificate. In a recent graduation ceremony at Holy Spirit Church, Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zarama of Atlanta sent for
People walk in the parking lot of a shopping mall in front of a billboard with an image of Pope Francis in a working class neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The pontiff is scheduled to visit the city on Feb. 17. (CNS photo/David Maung)
Dispatches
Kevin Clarke
More Mexicans remain tied to their Catholic faith compared with people in many other Latin American countries.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), a free man who inhabited a prison cell
In All Things
Joseph McAuley
Mandela was imprisoned for all that time because of what he was and who he was: a black man.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Shootings by police in Los Angeles County nearly doubled in the last year, from 23 to 45 cases, 19 of them fatal.
Orthodox priests arrive at the Russian Orthodox church in Havana Feb. 7. Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill will meet in Cuba on Feb. 12. (CNS photo/Alexandre Meneghini, Reuters)
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope and Patriarch in Cuba: an enormous step for Catholic-Russian Orthodox relations and for Christian Unity
Father Thomas Kommers of St. Joseph Church in Red Wing, Minn., puts palms in a bowl and burns them during an Ash Wednesday prayer service Feb. 10. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
News
Catholic News Service
The three efforts aim to help Catholics enrich their Lenten prayer experience, sacrifice to help others in need and learn more about the church's penitential season overall.
Workers prepare the grandstands outside Metropolitan Cathedral on Feb. 5, 2016, in preparation for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Mexico City. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
News
Tim MacGabhann - Religion News Service
“It’s not like he’s going to come in and magically make all of our problems go away."
Current Comment
The Editors
Mexicans consume almost 500 cans of sugar-loaded soda per person every year.
Current Comment
The Editors
If the United Nations is not able to police its own ranks, how can it be trusted to restore a culture of lawfulness in the Central African Republic?
Current Comment
The Editors
No one’s failures are absolved or explained away; they remain sins rather than being reduced to pathologies.
Faith in Focus
Mary Beth Werdel
The goal is not children who can sit in Mass and not bother anyone, but children who can learn to create space in their hearts.
St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, University Avenue, the Bronx--where a little boy learned about Ash Wednesday
In All Things
Joseph McAuley
My first Ash Wednesday memory
News
Jonathan Lemire - Associated Press
Social service groups argue that the counts should be done more often because the number of homeless changes depending on how cold it is.