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Arts & CultureIdeas
Erika Rasmussen
Amanda Gorman's poem was like a lighting flash that spoke to eternal beauty
Arts & CultureNews
Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball’s greatest all-around players, died Friday.
Tiger Woods, of the United States, waits to hit on the 13th hole during the first round of the US Open Golf Championship, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Mamaroneck, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Kevin Jackson
HBO’s ‘Tiger’ shows that Tiger Woods’s development as a human being came second to his golf.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
There is no part of our Jesuit ministry that is untouched by the devastating consequences of abortion. 
Politics & SocietyJesuitical
Jesuitical
Reactions to the inauguration of the nation’s second Catholic president.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
President Joe Biden will revoke the so-called “Mexico City policy,” which blocks U.S. funding of foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform and promote abortion as a form of family planning.
Federico Peña addresses the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Aug. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Nichole M. Flores
Nichole Flores profiles Federico Peña, the first Hispanic mayor of Denver and a leader in national politics, who is now focused on the physical and spiritual health of his community.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Today’s readings inspire us to be mindful and attuned to all of creation and the ways that we support or harm our fellow creatures.
The microplastics discovered in human placentas were much smaller, invisible to the naked eye, but they are part of a rapidly worsening pollution crisis. (iStock/pcess609)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Bonnette
Tiny pieces of plastic waste, already found at the top of Mount Everest and the bottom of the ocean, may now have a toehold in the human womb, writes Kathleen Bonnette.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Tim J. Myers
red-eared sliders who work the Rio Grande
Mary Lou Williams, third from left, with friends in her New York apartment (photo: Alamy).
Arts & CultureMusic
Michael Scott Alexander
Williams came to write “Mary Lou’s Mass” to capture her feeling of suffering—and its apotheosis.
Arts & CultureBooks
Diane Scharper
This debut novel by 29-year-old Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won the 2020 International Booker Prize.
President-elect Joe Biden departs St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Tom Suozzi
As president, Joe Biden will have to seek common ground across a wide ideological spectrum, writes Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York. His relationship with God as a Catholic will help him to do so.
Arts & CultureBooks
Molly Cahill
in Barack Obama's new memoir, readers get to know a host of colorful characters who played a role in the campaign for the presidency and Obama’s first term in office.
Darcel Whitten-Wilamowski directs the Sister Thea Bowman, Servant of God, Mass Gospel Choir during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving on Feb. 16, 2020, at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithDispatches
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
None of the saints associated with the United States are of African descent. The Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University intends to change that, and here are six possibilities for sainthood.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Today’s Gospel prompts us to honor, appreciate and thank the many people who have been healers in our midst,
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Today’s readings remind us we are not alone in our quest for understanding and clarity.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joe Pagetta
Aaron J. Leonard’s new book draws from almost 10,000 pages of F.B.I. files on an array of folk artists. It aims to illustrate the considerable impact that the U.S. government’s campaign against Communism had on folk artists in the 1940s and early ’50s.
Arts & CultureBooks
Christiana Zenner
Eric Holthaus experiences climate change as a wound, a rending in the fabric of society and ecology.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
The Gospel reminds us to treat all people, especially the sick, with dignity, care and respect.