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Three Catholic priests and a man in a suit pose for a photo
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves.”
A woman prays during an Easter Sunday Mass at Surp Giragos Armenian Catholic Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, April 9, 2023. (OSV News photo/Sertac Kayar, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Miriane Demers-Lemay
A tiny population of about 60,000 Armenian Christians remain in Turkey today. Most, uprooted from villages in eastern Anatolia, now live in neighborhoods in Istanbul.
Bible on brown table in greenery
FaithScripture Reflections
Simcha Fisher
A Reflection for Monday of the Third Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis wants to visit Argentina, his homeland, in 2024 and has told Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the private secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, that he has to leave his Vatican apartment in the coming months.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Jackson
A Reflection for Saturday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kevin Jackson
A scene from ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ (photo: Jeremy Daniel)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.
colorful icons of a hummingbird, monarch butteryfly and bee
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim McDermott
Artist Angela Manno creates Byzantine Russian-style icons of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. And they are really extraordinary.
a sculpture with a lot of people, immigrants and people of color, with scared or hopeful faces; an angel's wings peak up in the midst of them
FaithArt
Christopher Parker
Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.
A Louisiana politician speaks into a mic, identified as Greg Guidry
FaithNews
Jim Mustian - Associated Press
A federal judge donated tens of thousands of dollars to New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese and consistently ruled in favor of the church amid a contentious bankruptcy involving nearly 500 clergy sex abuse victims.
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
Jesuitical
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley talk to Dorothy Fortenberry, a producer and screenwriter for “Extrapolations,” a new show from Apple TV+ that aims to shake us from our climate change complacency.
pietro orlandi wears a leather jacket and stands on a street with his lawyer laura sgro who wears a brown jacket and glasses
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
In this week's episode of Inside the Vatican, Ricardo and Gerry discuss the "Vatican Girl" case after Pope Francis defended Pope John Paul II, and the resignation of Hans Zollner, S.J.
donald trump stands in front of a pro life sign speaking at the march for life in 2020
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America pushed back against a statement by Donald Trump, saying instead that “Life is a matter of human rights, not states’ rights.”
FaithScripture Reflections
Ashley McKinless
A Reflection for the Friday of the Second Week of Easter by Ashley McKinless
The Rev. Luis Melquiades Suazo, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua parish in the nearby municipality of San Antonio del Norte, visits Mercedes De Oriente.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Subsistence farmers affected by drought will have to make it to the United States to feed their families and save their farms or cattle. Their departure leaves a gaping hole in families and the community.
Capitol building in red and blue
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Readers respond to Father Sam Sawyer's article about how St. Ignatius' ideas could offer a way out of current ecclesial, cultural and political polarization.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Alfonso Sasieta
Rewrite God’s poems until the mob in us froths at the mouth.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Josh Dugat
What is it you cannot stand to live with any longer? Toss it in
FaithFaith and Reason
Aaron Pidel
When we speak of the 'hierarchy of truths' in Catholic theology, we need to remember that we are teaching both the essentials—and the entirety—of the faith.
Arts & CultureBooks
John-Paul Heil
In his new book, 'The Need to Be Whole,' Wendell Berry strives to give a glimpse of the undivided foundation that underpins all he has ever tried to think and say.
Arts & CultureBooks
Isaac Fitzgerald’s collection of essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional isn’t a Catholic memoir. Except when it is.