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FaithFaith in Focus
James Martin, S.J.
The question comes down to this: Are you really pro-life? Do you reverence all lives—the check-out clerk as much as the unborn child?
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
The beheading of a statue of Christ at a Catholic church in the Miami Archdiocese has saddened the parish community and prompted the archbishop to call for investigation of the incident as a hate crime.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Joel Hodge
We know from history that engaging in violence only causes more problems. So why do police and protesters still do it? René Girard had an answer: imitative behavior.
Arts & CultureBooks
James M. Chesbro
72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
"The kids were so stunned they stayed completely silent."
FaithNews
Maria Wiering - Catholic News Service
Mask-wearing at church has paralleled public mask use in general, which has seen variance across the state and country.
White-Gravenor Hall at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., the oldest of the 28 Jesuit universities in the United States (iStock/aimintang)
FaithShort Take
Jeanne LordKevin Sullivan
The Ignatian way of approaching the world with thoughtfulness, care, courage and love is bearing fruit during a year of immense challenges, write two leaders of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Dan Anderl poses for a photo with Bishop James F. Checchio of Metuchen, N.J., in this 2018 photo. The son of New Jersey federal Judge Esther Salas, he was fatally shot at her North Brunswick home July 19, 2020. (CNS screen grab/St. Joseph High School)
Politics & SocietyNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
Daniel Anderl was fatally shot in the heart when a gunman entered the family home in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey, on July 19.
Empty pews are seen at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Washington July 11, 2020. A report released July 16, 2020, by the Leadership Roundtable calls for the Vatican and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to "create structures and laws for ethical financial leadership." (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
FaithNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Recommendations focused on the development of plans for co-responsible governance of the church, transforming relationships within the church to build a "new culture of leadership" and welcoming young people into leadership roles.
Social-distancing dividers for students at St. Benedict School in Montebello, Calif., on July 14, 2020. (CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
Private and public schools alike will not be allowed to reopen their campuses if they are located in counties that remain on the state’s monitoring list.
Andrea Dowlen, left, an Americorps worker with Catholic Charities of Tennessee, and Matthew Grimes, a Catholic Charities volunteer, fill emergency food boxes July 7, 2020, for people who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the March 3 tornadoes. The boxes contain enough food to feed two people for five to seven meals. (CNS photo/Andy Telli, Tennessee Register)
FaithNews
Andy Telli - Catholic News Service
About 30 families at Sagrado Corazon have had members infected by the virus, Father David Ramirez said. There also have been families at St. Luke Church in Smyrna and St. John Vianney Church in Gallatin that have been directly affected by the virus.
French firefighters gather at the scene of a blaze at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Nantes July 18, 2020. Police are investigating the incident as arson because the fire started in three different places. (CNS photo/Stephane Mahe, Reuters)
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Although more than 100 firefighters contained the blaze within two hours and stopped it from spreading to the main body of the church, a 17th-century choir organ at the west end of the building was destroyed with much of the choir area and multiple stained-glass windows.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy issued a new instruction on pastoral care that specifies the role of lay men and women in the church's mission of evangelization and offers guidance in parish reforms and restructuring.
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia is shown in a scene from the documentary "John Lewis: Good Trouble" about the longtime racial equality activist and member of Congress. (CNS photo/courtesy Magnolia Pictures)
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Kerry Kennedy
I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Associated Press
He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the movement.
St. Michael Cathedral Basilica in downtown Toronto (iStock)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Church officials had been in regular conversation with Toronto and Ontario officials and received enthusiastic approval of the plan the diocese put in motion to reopen churches and restore Communion at Mass.
Photo: Netflix
Arts & CultureTelevision
Mike Seay
I was caught off guard by the show’s artistic experimentation, nuanced spiritual message and deeply moving season finale.
This June 4, 2014 file photo shows the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. The Vatican has indicated its support for a campaign to exhume the bodies of hundreds of babies who were buried on the grounds of a Catholic-run Irish home for unwed mothers to give them a proper Christian burial. (Niall Carson/PA via AP, file)
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Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam has said it was a “priority” for him to re-inter the babies' bodies in consecrated ground.
Flannery O’Connor and her peacocks (photo: Joe McTyre)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Flannery” is an apologia for O’Connor but, like any good defense, it takes the position that she doesn’t need one.
Politics & SocietyLetters
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