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07.08.2020 In this 2016 file photo, Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, mother provincial of the Denver-based Little Sisters of the Poor, speaks to the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Ellen K. Boegel
Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion is a decisive win for religious rights advocates, but it may not be the last chapter in this story.
Arts & CultureMusic
Jordan McDonald
Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.
Michael Cimino as Victor Salazar in ‘Love, Victor’ on Hulu (photo: Hulu).
Arts & CultureTelevision
Stephen G. Adubato
“Love, Victor” raises important questions about how same-sex desire is construed across religious and ethnic divides.
FaithNews Analysis
Michael J. O’Loughlin
It is up to individual Catholics to make the case to church leaders.
FaithFeatures
Larry Tye
Senator Joe McCarthy was devoted to his faith but also devoted to an obsessive hunt for Communism in the halls of the U.S. Government.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey has said that executing federal death row inmate Dustin Le Honken "will do nothing to restore justice or heal those burdened by these crimes."
Politics & SocietyNews
Julie Asher - Catholic News Service
A prohibition by some U.S. Navy commands against active service members participating in off-base indoor religious services over coronavirus fears has now been revised, allowing attendance at places of worship where congregants can maintain social distance and wear face coverings.
Our Lady Queen of Angels School in the East Harlem section of New York City is seen in this 2015 file photo. On July 9, the Archdiocese of New York announced that financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing it to close numerous Catholic schools. The East Harlem school is not among them. The Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. also has announced school closures.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
The schools will not reopen in the fall because of the financial fallout caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
 (CNS photo/Michael Falco, Fordham University)
Politics & SocietyNews
J.D. Long García
Institutions of higher learning in the United States had expected a drop in international enrollment this fall. Now, they may lose all international students who typically pay higher tuition rates, a source of funding many universities have come to depend on.
President Donald Trump greets Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
J.D. Long García
President Trump seemed to acknowledge the problematic beginning of his relationship with President López Obrador when he said their friendship developed “against all odds.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Theresa Laurence - Catholic News Service
Black Catholics in the United States are commenting on what they hope will happen in the church and as well as society as a whole as a result of the recent racial unrest and protests.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
The U.S. should be "leading a coordinated global response to protect the lives of millions of people around the world," the Catholic Health Association said.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
The testimony was offered at the trial of Inocente Orlando Montano, a former colonel in the army of El Salvador, on trial in Spain for the murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter on the campus of a Catholic university in 1989.
John Flanery, president of Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools in Sioux City, Iowa, speaks to graduating seniors and their families June 27, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Jerry L Mennenga)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nydia Salazar
Absent relief, more and more private schools will close, hurting local economies on the way.
A woman holds a sign as demonstrators gather in September 2019, at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town during a protest against gender-based violence. (CNS photo/Sumaya Hisham, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Patrick Egwu
A wave of killing of women and children has horrified the country in recent weeks since the gradual easing of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on June 1.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The Vatican was committed to discussing solutions to "mass migration and refugee movements, with the goal of preserving human lives and dignity, alleviating suffering and advancing an authentic and integral development."
Arts & CulturePoetry
Ife Shango-Singleton
My black sisters are often forgotten and ignored.
Camden Minacci (photo: Pete Young - Jesuit High School Tampa)
Arts & CultureInterviews
Sean Salai
A conversation with Jesuit High School Tampa graduate Camden Minacci.
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Holly Taylor Coolman
Racial identity shapes people’s lives in a thousand and one ways, writes Holly Taylor Coolman, who describes the challenges for white parents adopting a Black or biracial child.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
We listen to the sacred Scriptures week after week, year after year. Why does it take a diagnosis, a divorce, a death, a setback or a struggle for us to hear them?