Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options

Arts & CulturePoetry
Nicholas Samaras
I’m tired of the world’s incessant buzz and scrutiny, the news and the news of the news, the onslaught.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
We must seek healing for our own spiritual blindness in order to see the light of Christ.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Mary and Martha inspire us to maintain an unshakable faith, even during the darkest of hours.
FaithLast Take
Jenny Cafiso
The denial of education to girls is a violation of their dignity as human beings made in the image of God, writes Jenny Cafiso of Canadian Jesuits International.
FaithExplainer
Nicholas D. SawickiVivian Cabrera
It’s Friday and we know what you want to know: What fish sandwich should you eat today?
FaithJesuitical
Jesuitical
Each day, George Williams, S.J., passes through metal doors plastered with the word “CONDEMNED” to minister to the men of San Quentin State Prison.
People wearing masks for protection from the coronavirus tour the Vatican Museums at the Vatican Feb. 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The normal services of the health and hygiene sector of the Vatican city-state were “temporarily suspended” following yesterday’s positive test for Covid-19 on one patient in order “to sanitize the areas.”
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The coronavirus poses a threat that knows no borders. As Catholics, neither does our love and concern for our neighbors.
A man receives ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass inside the Church of the Assumption in Lagos, Nigeria, Feb. 26, 2020. (CNS photo/Nyancho NwaNri, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Shola Lawal
The Lenten season has begun, and more Nigerians are likely to attend religious gatherings. To stall a possible outbreak, however, Archbishop Alfred Martins of the Archdiocese of Lagos said contact should be restricted.
Politics & SocietyNews
Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
The affected areas were in the West Bank: Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour and Jericho for 14 days following seven reported cases of the coronavirus in the Bethlehem and Beit Jala area.
Several visitors enter an empty security queue before visiting St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on March 4. Visitors and pilgrims to churches, museums and landmarks in Rome have sharply declined following an outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in northern Italy. (CNS photo/Junno Arocho Esteves)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a small indication of how rapidly the contagion is affecting Italy, by the time the Vatican spokesman sent his communique to the media, the number of victims had risen dramatically—the total number of cases rising to 3,858 and deaths to 148.
Mary Clare Fichtner, O.P., (far left) is joined by Springfield Dominican Anti-Racism Team members (left to right) Richard Bowen, Howard Derrick and Valeria Cueto. Photo courtesy of Springfield Dominicans.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
William Critchley-Menor, S.J.
The Dominican sisters are motivated by a recognition that the blinding racism that allowed nuns to buy and sell human beings in the past could blind them to their own complicity in racist structure today.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Nathan Schneider
As walls go up, so does the hoarding behind them
FaithNews
Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press
Built on the grotto where Christians believe Jesus was born, the church joins a list of prominent tourist and holy sites to shutter their doors in the wake of rising fears over the spread of coronavirus.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Lord, why do you grant me the grace to see you so clearly, yet deny this same gift to the one whom I so desperately love?
In ‘Dana H.,’ Deirdre O’Connell lip-syncs to a recorded account of Dana Higginbotham’s abduction by a disturbed client some 25 years ago (photo: Carol Rosegg).
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Dana Higginbotham is the subject of an extraordinary new play by her son, Lucas Hnath.
Daniel Ortega flanks Pope John Paul II who wags his finger at culture minister and priest Ernesto Cardenal, during welcoming ceremonies at the airport in Managua, Nicaragua, in March 1983. (AP Photo/Barricada, File)
Politics & SocietyColumns
Robert Ellsberg
Thomas Merton wrote an introduction to a lyrical book of reflections by Cardenal, Vida en Amor: “In a time of conflict, anxiety, war, cruelty, and confusion, the reader may be surprised that this book is a hymn in praise of love, telling us that ‘all things love one another.’”
A tourist wearing a protective mask visits Milan's famed cathedral, commonly referred to as the "Duomo," as it reopened to the public March 2, 2020, for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Bronwen Dachs - Catholic News Service
Catholic Relief Services, which works in more than 110 countries, is "restricting all but the most mission-critical travel, with contingency operational plans in place should the disease take hold in any of the countries where the organization operates."
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael Stechschulte - Catholic News Service
Ste. Anne, Detroit's oldest parish, is given the distinction of being a minor basilica.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Dioceses nationwide are taking precautions to guard against the spread of the coronavirus and reminding parishioners to take commonsense steps related to hygiene in their personal lives.