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A priest in a Roman collar speaks into a mic
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
The commission gathered in Rome to reflect on findings from the continental stage of the process leading up to the assemblies of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican in 2023 and 2024.
a young man in shadow sits with his head in his hands in an empty hallway
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The crisis for teens is both psychological and spiritual, and it demands a response from both mental health and faith communities. How do we make our church again a place of belonging for young people who are hurting?
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FaithScripture Reflections
Kaya Oakes
A Reflection for Thursday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kaya Oakes
several people including joe biden walk out of a church building and are greeted by two priests in robes
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and First Lady Jill Biden donated $20,180 to charity in 2022 to 20 charities, including several Catholic parishes.
king charles walks wearing a dark suit with green grass behind him
FaithNews
Gerard O’Connell
At King Charles III's coronation, the Cross of Wales will have two small relics of the True Cross incorporated within it, showing the connection between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.
pages of a book formed into a heart shape
FaithFeatures
Simcha Fisher
Marriages between a Catholic and a non-Catholic may be becoming more common, but they are by no means easy, especially with regard to how to raise children.
Supper at Emmaus. Jesus and two disciples sit around the table and share a meal.
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
April 23, 2023, the Third Sunday of Easter: Those who practice the Examen, a meditative daily habit, may recognize something familiar in the scene that unfolds in this Sunday’s Gospel passage.
a child reaches out to hug pope francis, the child wears a pink and purple striped shirt and is missing most of an arm, pope francis is turned away from the camera to hug her
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
Pope Francis continues with his series of general audiences on evangelization: “Today there are persecutions of Christians throughout the world, many, many. There are more martyrs today than in the first times.”
Children's feet in a school
FaithNews
Charles J. Russo
The key question in this case is not whether a charter would help or harm local education, but whether explicitly religious instruction at charter schools is constitutional.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Michael R. Simone, S.J.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Joe Hoover, S.J.
The poetry of Amit Majmudar, whom America has published 10 times in the past few years, moves easily between the mystical and the ordinary, the one rooted in the other.
Election violence in 2018: Soldiers beat a female supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party of Nelson Chamisa outside the party's headquarters as they await the results of the general elections in August 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (CNS photo/Mike Hutchings, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Marko Phiri
Zimbabwe bishops condemned “heinous violent crimes” after videos circulated of opposition political supporters being attacked by suspected supporters of the ruling Zimababwe African National Union Patriotic Front.
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Arts & CultureIdeas
Joe Hoover, S.J.
The best “time maximizing” methods can lead us to a space where God can maximize our souls and inhabit everything we do.
Latino Catholics in black and white shirts hold hands while reciting the Lord's Prayer during Mass inside a church under a circular stained glass window.
FaithNews
Maria-Pia Negro Chin, OSV News
Despite the 24% decline over the last decade, Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, the Pew report said.
Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at V. H. Lassen Academy of Science and Nutrition in Phoenix on Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Mariani)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Dwayne David Paul
Catholics should support universal free school meals both because it aids the poor and because it promotes the common good.
father hans zollner prays with head bowed in his clerics with a gold cloth-covered wall behind him; the purple caps of bishops or cardinals are blurred in front of him in the foreground
Politics & SocietyNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Father Hans Zollner clarified that his resignation was not intended to personally attack anyone or impede the work of the commission, which he called “a success in itself and a great idea by Pope Francis.”
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FaithScripture Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Valerie Schultz
theodore mccarrick in a file photo wears his collar and looks off to the side
Politics & SocietyNews
Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press
A criminal complaint filed on Friday alleges that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually assaulted a Wisconsin man in 1977, when the alleged victim was 18 years old.
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Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
You need not worry that I will be outsourcing “Of Many Things” columns to our robot overlords in the future.
Catholic Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong in a red chasuble and white mitre wears a surgical mask.
FaithNews
Kanis Leung - Associated Press
Hong Kong's Roman Catholic bishop arrived in Beijing on Monday, marking the first visit to the Chinese capital by the city's bishop in nearly three decades, despite signs of Sino-Vatican strains.