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FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Bishop Brennan was "dismayed by the continued revelations concerning former Bishop Michael Bransfield's misdeeds."
The most trusted institution in the United States, keeping watch in front of the least trusted institution. (iStock/inhauscreative)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Jackson
According to a new survey, a large share of U.S. Catholics still have doubts about the ability of religious leaders to admit and take responsibility for mistakes. But no one fares worse than members of Congress in terms of public trust.
Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
Many countries around the globe employ a system of mandatory national service for their citizens. We asked our readers: Is mandatory service for U.S. citizens a good idea?
People attend the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon celebrated by Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’ConnellLuke Hansen
The most important thing to emerge from the synod was the unequivocal commitment by the church to seek new ways to preach the Gospel and to promote justice and stand in solidarity with the Amazon’s 34 million inhabitants.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The Pew Research Center recently declared that so-called nones, or the religiously unaffiliated, make up 26 percent of the U.S. population, up from 17 percent only a decade ago.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
The strategic vision of Jesus as leader was not a plan of invasion but rather the conquest of death itself.
FaithFeatures
Rachel Lu
What has football contributed to American Catholicism? What has Catholicism contributed to American football? For Catholics, it is particularly worth revisiting Notre Dame’s unique story.
Arts & CulturePoetry
James Matthew Wilson
But then they come, the slow gray monoliths.
FaithLast Take
John Gehring
Christianity is not a collection of abstract principles that can be reduced to parsing and defending faceless propositions.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Robert Dean Lurie
The technological changes Guardini witnessed during his lifetime (1885-1968) were far more dramatic, jarring and violent than anything we are likely to see in our own era. Yet the deeper I go into his writings, the more convinced I become of their urgency and relevance in the here and now.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Christ’s delay is part of God’s plan; it gives Christians time to preach the Gospel to everyone who will listen.
FaithFaith and Reason
Wendy Crosby
The central religious message of "Good Omens" is a lighthearted critique of Christians who claim faith in a providential God, a God with a plan, but whose plan is utterly incomprehensible.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The filmmaker Errol Morris gives us several reasons to recoil in his controversial profile and interview with the former White House strategist Steve Bannon.
Sts. Jean de Lalande, Isaac Jogues and Rene Goupil, who were among the 17th-century French Jesuit missionaries martyred in North America, are depicted in a stained-glass window at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame of Quebec in Quebec City. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithShort Take
Alvan I. Amadi
Wherever the church has flourished, it is because men and women gave their lives as witness to a love that is stronger than death. Father Alvan I. Amadi writes that the saints of North America are proof of the church’s vitality.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
What began here on earth is lost, mostly without a trace. But who looks for the seed that died when the mighty tree raises its leafed branches to the sky?
FaithFaith in Focus
Vivian Cabrera
This Day of the Dead, I made two loaves of bread: one to share with colleagues and the less pretty one for myself and my grandpa to share over a cup of cafecito.
Salwa Hanna with her children arrive at the Bardarash refugee camp, north of Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 17. Christians originally from Afrin, Ms. Hanna’s family has now been displaced twice by Turkish incursions. “I left my home, and I had just started a new home, and I left it all behind,” she said. “There are no emotions anymore. We live as if we are dead.” (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
This is only the latest wave of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people from Iraq to seek safety in Iraqi-Kurdistan, which already hosts 38 camps. So far 12,000 Syrian civilians have taken refuge across the border.
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The campaign "is a way the church can be an example," director Jill Rauh said.
FaithGoodNews
Francis Njuguna - Catholic News Service
He received the award during United Nations Day celebrations in Nairobi on Oct. 24.
FaithFaith in Focus
John Gehring
After a trip to the border, I returned home to the nation’s capital—where President Trump continues to double down on cruel policies—carrying a stone I picked up in the desert and the stories of migrants.