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Kansas thinks voting is a privilege that shouldn't be won at a state fair. (Shutterstock)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
36,000 Kansans made an effort to register that was pointless, perhaps misleadingly so.
Protesters carry signs and an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Vista, Calif., Aug. 3 (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters).
In All Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Why the accusation of "selling baby parts" resulted in us never getting to really talk about abortion.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Several fathers believe there could be route between the polarized positions on admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the Eucharist.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, before Congress
In All Things
Charles C. Camosy
Selling body parts is not the only legal issue, and it may not even be the most important
News
Catholic News Service
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, called the decision "meaningless."
Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
October 15, 2015Santa MartaBeware of those who limit God’s horizons and reduce the love of God down to our size.  That was at the heart of Pope Francis’ homily at the Mass Thursday morning (Oct.15) at the Casa Santa Marta.“Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away t
Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Sept. 24. In the first such speech by a pope, he called on Congress to stop bickering as the world needs help. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
In All Things
John Carr
Francis demonstrates how to share Catholic moral principles in ways that invite and persuade rather than alienate and push people away.
In All Things
Margot Patterson
The presidential debates tell us a lot about the candidates’ personalities, but watch enough of them and you can also find some striking and unexpected statements about policy.
The Good Word
Terrance Klein
Justice and peace are of God. To receive them, the depths of the human must be laid open.
The Master of Sitting and Storytelling, Mark Twain (1835-1910): "When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself."
In All Things
Joseph McAuley
It was such a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t die from sitting down. I have often imagined dying from a lot of things, but sitting wasn’t one of them.
Women listen as Pope Francis talks with immigrant families at Our Lady Queen of Angels School in the East Harlem area of New York Sept. 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
It’s a strange thing to call the vast majority of believers “the other members” of the church.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Xavier University professor notes the "moral formation of business professionals in business education can no longer be ignored."
The Word
John W. Martens
A reflection on the Solemnity of All Saints
Books
Patrick Howell
'A Council for the Global Church' by Massimo Faggioli; 'Struggle, Condemnation, Vindication' by Barry Hudock; and 'A Council That Will Never End' by Paul Lakeland
Arts & CultureBooks
Barbara Curtin Miles
Corita Kent (1918–86) deserves recognition alongside her far more famous secular counterpart, the pop artist Andy Warhol. But remarkably, no one has published a comprehensive biography of the artist who was seen by some as the “rebel nun.”
Books
Paul Monod
'Ferdinand II,' by Robert Birely, S.J.
Of Other Things
Maurice Timothy Reidy
“Show Me a Hero” gets into the weeds of late 1980s housing policy.
Carolina deluge.
Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston, S.C., asked for prayers on Oct. 6 for the families of those killed or left homeless by what officials called a 1,000-year storm which deluged the state. • Church leaders in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct. 10 demonstrated for the withdrawal of legislation th
OUT OF THE WOODS? Walkers on “The Walking Dead”
Television
Jim McDermott
Living with ‘The Walking Dead’
Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
"We don’t want an abrupt change that would produce a different type of gold rush: from Communism to consumerism overnight.”