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Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The sacrifice of those we remember this month with “our undying gratitude” will not have been in vain.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Sonja Livingston
My father-in-law is coming to the end.
Arts & CultureBooks
Angelo Jesus Canta
In a collection of nine essays, Jia Tolentino writes about a range of topics, including the advent of our internet culture, the modern wedding industry, megachurch evangelical Christianity, market-driven feminism and college rape culture.
Pictured from left: Mary Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., Jessica Powers (Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit) and Madeline DeFrees (Mary Gilbert, S.N.J.M.) (photos: Saint Mary's College archives/Wikipedia/Madelinedefrees.com).
Arts & CulturePoetry
Nick Ripatrazone
In the mid-20th century, several women religious were writing and publishing ambitious poetry.
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Easter joy gives us the eyes to see those hints of eternity in the here and now, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
Arts & CultureBooks
Philip C. Kolin
Paul Mariani’s poems ask, “Does God know us only by the names our parents gave us?,” another reminder of how the human and eternal meet.
Arts & CultureBooks
John W. Miller
Victor Pickard wants to help “reinvent journalism” by working out a new economic model based on some sort of public subsidy for reporting outlets all over the country.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
On this Trinity Sunday, we reflect on the love and connections within the Trinity.
FaithFeatures
Mara Brecht
In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Each of Luke's accounts highlights aspects of the Spirit’s role in propelling the Christian movement forward after the resurrection.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
In a letter commemorating the centenary of Pope Saint John Paul II's birth, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflects that John Paul sought to spread the message that "God's mercy is intended for every individual" and that the late pope was no "moral rigorist" that some have portrayed him as being.
FaithFeatures
Rachel Lu
In a troubled time in our nation's history, can we unite around shared commitments to freedom, human dignity and truth?
Syrian children sit on the ground at a makeshift camp in Qatmah Feb. 17, 2020. The Sept. 27 celebration of World Day of Migrants and Refugees will emphasize people displaced within their own countries. (CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope also called on people “to embrace all those who are experiencing situations of precariousness, abandonment, marginalization and rejection as a result of Covid-19.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
More than 100 organizations--including Catholic religious congregations-- which advocate for debt relief have publicized a letter to the International Monetary Fund calling on international policymakers to cancel debt payments for poor and developing nations so that they use focus their resources on dealing with the pandemic.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Msgr. Slawomir Oder, the postulator for the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul II, has said recently that he had found no evidence that the late pope ever covered up cases of sexual abuse scandals.
A nurse and newborns are seen in the Hotel Venice, which is owned by BioTexCom. a surrogacy agency in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 14, 2020. Dozens of babies born to surrogate mothers are stranded in Ukraine as the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown prevents their foreign parents from collecting them. The country's Catholic bishops have called for a halt to commercial surrogacy. (CNS photo/Gleb Garanich, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Ukrainian Catholic bishops are calling for an end to the practice of commercial surrogacy as dozens of babies are left stranded and not claimed by foreign adoptive parents because of the pandemic.
FaithJesuitical
Jesuitical
A conversation with the (Jesuit-educated) principal of Kolbe Academy
Stephanie Jones posts a sign mandating one-way foot traffic among the cubicles at the design firm Bergmeyer, in Boston, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Margot Patterson
After the 9/11 attacks, the United States threw out international law and established a surveillance society, writes Margot Patterson. Covid-19 calls for a less heavy-handed approach, but will we realize that?
“Should I wear a mask to the grocery store?” is one of the new questions about our responsibilities to others. Photo taken outside a business in San Francisco on April 11. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Michael Rozier, S.J.
How we choose to behave during the Covid-19 pandemic reveals who we are and whom we want to be, writes Michael Rozier, S.J. It is a time to rediscover true virtues.
FaithFaith in Focus
Matthew Ippel, S.J.
God’s invitation to me was to remain with the Sudanese refugees and the local South Sudanese through Jesuit Refugee Service. And so I chose to accept that invitation.