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Homeless man playing guitar in underpass tunnel (iStock/South_agency)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill Smith
In my 40 years being homeless and working with the unhoused, I have learned that there is no one major reason why people become homeless.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kerry Weber
A Reflection for Monday of the Third Week of Advent, by Kerry Weber
FaithPodcasts
Hark! The stories behind our favorite Christmas carols
On the final episode of Hark! this season, prepare yourselves for a wee bit of scandal because we’re looking at a tune that began as a bawdy love song and has long been associated with an evil monarch, but which, over the course of three centuries, finds its redemption as a Christmas carol. This is the story behind, “What Child Is This?”
FaithScripture Reflections
Zac Davis
The Incarnation is a pivotal moment in salvation history, but it is also placed within family history.
FaithNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 13 agreed to hear a case from the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, in which the agency argued a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court discounted its religious identity.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Police in Madison said Dec. 16 they are investigating a shooting at that city's Abundant Life Christian School that left multiple people dead and injured.
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
December 22, 2024, The Fourth Sunday of Advent: Christmas is about Jesus. Along the way, however, there is a whole cast of smaller roles that work together to cooperate with the divine plan.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis, on his first visit to Corsica, praised the island people's deep faith and tradition of popular piety. On December 5, thousands of Corsicans gathered in Ajaccio to welcome the first pope ever to visit the island.
FaithPodcasts
Grace Lenahan
While “What Child Is This?” is an explicitly Christmas song, the tune speaks to the mystery of identity and purpose—questions that transcend religious boundaries and appeal to the human experience.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
For the first time, women will serve on the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Catholic LGBTQ+ group “La Tenda di Gionata” (”Jonathan’s Tent”) is among the many groups to register a pilgrimage to St. Peter's Basilica for the Holy Year. They are among the hundreds of groups not part of the Vatican’s 35 official, special jubilees.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis’ visit to Corsica will be his third visit to France, though he has yet to visit Paris.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
“Meet Me in St. Louis” asks: How do you have hope when the future holds so many unknowns?
Photo of Jean Charlot, ca. 1923, by Tina Modotti; woodcut of “Rich People in Hell” by Jean Charlot (Copyright the Jean Charlot Estate LLC. With permission)
Arts & CultureArt
Lawrence Downes
Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.
FaithFaith in Focus
Leilani Fuentes
Although there are many ways to donate during the Christmas season, the giving trees may be the most meaningful to me. This format for giving provides an intimacy not always present through other forms of donating.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley interview bestselling Irish author John Connell on how embracing the farm life preserved by his family for generations brought him closer to God and greater inner peace.
Jonathan Roumie as Jesus in a scene from the Sermon on the Mount from the television show “The Chosen” (photo Angel Studios/OSV)
Arts & CultureTelevision
America Staff
“The Chosen” television series tells some of the well-known biblical stories about Christ and his disciples—and weaves into them fictional stories about the life of Christ and his disciples.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Richard Schiffman
Who am I to prune the surging crown?
Arts & CulturePoetry
Gretchen Tessmer
just ordinary sunlight shimmering through a drizzling, autumn rain
Arts & CultureBooks
Amirah Orozco
Can you be a Catholic and a feminist? Julie Hanlon Rubio gives her answer in the introduction of her new book—in the form of a confident “yes.”