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FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for Palm Sunday, by Father Terrance Klein
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
King Charles III and Queen Camilla paid a private visit to Pope Francis in the Vatican on the afternoon of April 9, the 18th day of his convalescence.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden
The Vatican bank and other Vatican offices with financial dealings are getting more adept at identifying and stopping suspicious financial activity, according to the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority.
FaithNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Amid funding uncertainty, CRS submitted testimony to congressional lawmakers about how Catholic teaching can help form a new path forward on U.S. aid.
FaithNews
Peter Smith - Associated Press
President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Vatican has defended many of the administration’s foreign aid cuts at a Senate hearing, even while saying Catholic charitable groups are well-equipped to deliver such aid efficiently.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
In a long life as a priest, teacher and scholar, Ladislas Orsy, S.J., left an impressive legacy at his death last week at the age of 103.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
When asked if we could expect other such surprises in the coming days, Dr. Sergio Alfieri responded: “I do not rule out that the Holy Father will give us other surprises. We know him.”
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim Marshall
I'm hoping that a softer approach to these 40 days will help prepare me for the more difficult ones I know are coming.
FaithNews
Gina Christian - OSV News
Russell Brand, a British actor and comedian who promoted the Hallow prayer app and interviewed Bishop Robert E. Barron, has been charged with rape and other sexual offenses.
FaithFeatures
Colleen Jurkiewicz
Franciscan Peacemakers is the home base for a social enterprise, which provides women survivors of sexual trafficking with work experience and a means to support themselves financially.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
The U.S.C.C.B. said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the government in those areas became “untenable.”
A Ukrainian soldier helps a wounded comrade on the road in reclaimed territory in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Marc Roscoe Loustau
To Andriy Zelinskyy, S.J., “Victory is creating a society where a person feels their freedom and dignity, and where a human being remains a human being.”
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Returning to “Preach” for the second time this Lent, Professor Johnson joins host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., to discuss the Passion narratives in both Luke and John, heard during the principal liturgies of Holy Week.
FaithNews
Paul O’Donnell - Religion News Service
An Oklahoma man charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest wrote letters to a newspaper railing against the Catholic Church reforms of Vatican II and referring to a “strange new version of ‘Catholicism.’”
 (Photograph by Fabio Lovino, Stefano Delia/HBO)
Arts & CultureTelevision
James Martin, S.J.
Take the money? Join a monastery? Grab the gun?
FaithNews
Silvia Stellacci - Associated PressGiovanna Dell’Orto – Associated Press
With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of Carlo Acutis.
Pope Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter's Square at the end of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers at the Vatican on April 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis arrived in a wheelchair at the end of the Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers, sparking joyous shouts of “Viva il Papa!” from the more than 20,000 present.
FaithNews
Maria Wiering - OSV News
McCarrick had been removed from ministry at the direction of the Vatican in June 2018 due to a credible allegation of sexual abuse of a teenager investigated by the Archdiocese of New York.
Jay Sefton in ‘Unreconciled’ (barebones theater company)
Arts & CultureTheater
Elise L. Ryan
”Unreconciled” looks abuse, disregard and callousness in the eye and witnesses instead to radical kindness.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
‘A Man Escaped’ is a story of a man seeking temporal salvation, but Robert Bresson’s film takes on deeper meaning, becoming a parable of the Spirit.