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Catholic News Service
Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento has said that toppling statues does not bring about establishing the hard work of justice and "does little to build the future."
Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell walks with others toward the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on June 8. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
FaithShort Take
Tevin Williams
Having been raised in mostly Black churches, Tevin Williams found and embraced Catholicism. But he writes that the church must make it a priority to address racism.
Apotheosis of St. Louis is a statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, located in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park (photo: Wikimedia).
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Eve Tushnet
If our first instinct is to defend “the church,” have we really learned the lessons of the sexual abuse crisis?
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Faith-based organizations are pleading with Congress to fund world-wide pandemic relief efforts.
Prelates lead a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, over unending killings of Nigerians March 1, 2020. Nigerian bishops called on the international community to help the West African country in its fight against ethnic insecurity and terrorist groups such as Boko Haram. (CNS photo/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.
Politics & SocietyNews
Marilyn Rodrigues, Catholic News Service
The Catholic bishops of Australia are refuting claims that they are not doing enough to combat sexual abuse within the church.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Mexico's bishops are calling for civil authorities to "make all possible efforts" to assist the people economically and medically during the pandemic.
Politics & SocietyNews
Associated Press
An appeal is being made to Turkey's highest administrative court to have it reject a proposal of having Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia revert to being a mosque instead of a museum.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kurt Jensen - Catholic News Service
Religious liberty advocates believe that the latest Supreme Court decision will finally banish the hated 19th-century Blaine Amendments for good.
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Catholic News Service
A federal judge has ruled that a Trump administration policy regarding asylum seekers was unlawfully implemented.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has appealed to Christians and all people of faith “to pray for Hong Kong” following the imposition by China of a new national security law.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Maeve Orlowski-Scherer
A cartoon series from a decade ago proves to have profound lessons for today.
(CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters; CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Broken down between white and Hispanic Catholics, the numbers show a stark divide.
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
Feeling restless because we cannot go out to eat or attend a concert hardly amounts to involuntary incarceration.
Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” 1851 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Arts & CultureArt
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Leo. J. O’Donovan, S.J., makes a virtual visit to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Father Kenneth Zach, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Massapequa, N.Y., chats with third graders on Jan. 28 during his visit to the parish school. In a 5-4 ruling June 30, the Supreme Court said the exclusion of religious schools in Montana's state scholarship aid program violated the federal Constitution. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithShort Take
Thomas G. Wenski
The Supreme Court decision is a major win for school choice advocates and the church’s efforts to serve poor and marginalized communities, writes Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.
FaithFaith and Reason
Thomas Graff
Our fidelity to Christ and his body the church should have less to do with becoming an aggrieved church of fire damage than becoming a compassionate church of kinship with the broken.
FaithVantage Point
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy wrote for America on the brewing crisis between France and Algeria in 1957. Algeria gained independence from France in July 1962.
Arts & CultureBooks
Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel is a timely reflection on who gets to write history...and who gets to erase it.
A shepard stands in front of a field of sheep, with trees in the background.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Though liberation is often won through violence, love can never conquer through compulsion. Love must always be meek.