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FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Banquets can be status displays--or a chance to share with those who cannot repay us.
Arts & CultureBooks
Dominic Lynch
Over the course of the mid-to-late 20th century, notions of social justice went very, very wrong.
FaithFaith in Focus
Pasky Pascual
I pray we are merely on temporarily divergent, independent journeys to our best personal selves so that, someday, we can meet again downstream in conjoined bliss. 
Arts & CulturePoetry
Whitney Rio-Ross
Forgive me. A mother can only hold so many scars.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
This statue, which was permitted by an excess of imperial pride, now serves as a symbol of the humbling inflicted by the vicissitudes of history, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
Restoring public trust in the way we elect our political leaders is an immediate task.
Pope Francis greets pilgrims as he arrives for his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Aug. 7. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters) 
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a wide-ranging interview, Pope Francis warned of “sovereignism” as a force that leads to isolation and even war, and he discussed the ecological imperatives of the Synod on the Amazon.
FaithExplainer
James T. KeaneSam Sawyer, S.J.
Do Catholics truly believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist? A recent survey says most don't...but it's complicated.
Friends, coworkers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid the Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. U.S. immigration officials raided several Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday and signaled that the early-morning strikes were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’LoughlinJ.D. Long García
The near-term hardship “won’t hit for a week or two,” Bishop Kopacz said. But “as time goes on this month, there’s going to be some real crises.”
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. Photo courtesy of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Politics & SocietyNews
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to 25 years in prison each for trespassing on the U.S. Navy base that houses six Trident submarines carrying hundreds of nuclear weapons.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
“This evil affects everyone, and all communities are affected by racism,” said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre.
The Atomic Bomb Dome is seen in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 2019.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The bishops of Japan are renewing calls and prayers to build peace by abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide and promoting integral human development.
Photo: Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Kerry Weber
Perinatal hospice offers compassionate care to children with life-limiting conditions.
FaithFaith in Focus
Danielle Vaclavik
As the rest of the congregation, myself included, averted our eyes as our Lord stood in our midst, this man did not look away.
Visitors view a portrait of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, painted by the artist Robert McCurdy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature, died Monday at age 88.
Arts & CultureYour Take
Our readers
‘Who else has written so keenly and movingly about hope, evil, endurance, pain, greed, transcendence, all the things that make us human?’
Roxana Jaquez lights a candle at an ever growing memorial Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, outside the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting took place on Saturday.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Should a parish address current events at Mass? How? What if “current events” are national tragedies?
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old hero who charged a shooter at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, was posthumously named a Knight of Columbus.
Demonstrators stand outside the German bishops' spring meeting in Lingen on March 11, 2019. The sexual abuse scandal and demands for reform have changed the German church, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich said March 14. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA)
FaithDispatches
Renardo Schlegelmilch
German Catholics are embarking on what is being called a “synodal journey,” but it promises to be a potentially rocky one, focusing on subjects the church usually avoids.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
There is a reason apocalyptic movies make so much money.
Politics & SocietyNews
J.D. Long García
On Tuesday, Archbishop García-Siller tweeted that the president should “stop hate and racism, starting with yourself.” The tweet has since been deleted.