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People take photos of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, one day after a major blaze broke out at Paris' iconic cathedral. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, FILE)
FaithNews
Associated Press
Paris archbishop Michel Aupetit will be wearing a construction worker's helmet in addition to his miter.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
On June 17, 2015, a 23-year-old white supremacist killed nine African-Americans during a Bible study at the historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
His renunciation did not come as a total surprise given the controversy that erupted in Chile following the priest’s controversial statements after his nomination.
Arts & CultureArt
Ciaran FreemanBrandon Sanchez
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?
Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein in ‘Booksmart’ (photo: IMDB)
Arts & CultureFilm
Renée Darline Roden
This motley crew of high school students want to live an authentic life. They want to be known, by themselves and by others.
Pope Francis walks as he celebrates the Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 9, 2019. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
FaithFeatures
Austen Ivereigh
Francis may not pray in tongues, writes Austen Ivereigh, but no pope has ever identified as closely with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, nor been so keen to move it front and center of the church.
FaithExamen
James Martin, S.J.
The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.
Woodrow Wilson, right, sought to implement his famous Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, second from right, viewed them as hopelessly idealistic. (Photo: Alamy)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Christopher Sandford
The treaty’s offhand attitude toward the non-European world stirred up resentments that lingered for decades.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Again, the bullet. Again, the agony. We are repeating the day over and over, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joseph McAuley
A devotee of the opera, Brown eagerly gave tickets to his students, hoping to get them totally immersed in the arias he loved.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Michael McKinley
Bitcoin has value because people believe in it and evangelize it, and the more that value increases, the more incentive there is to evangelize it.
Arts & CultureBooks
John Sexton’s passion and commitment are infectious, and one cannot help hoping along with him that our universities will be able to realize the great aspirations that he has for them.
A man walks past the former Church of the Nativity in New York City in December 2018. It was deconsecrated in 2017. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) 
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
The number of U.S. parishes without resident pastors has leveled off to about 3,400, according to the latest data from CARA—but only after dioceses have closed down thousands of churches since 1990.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joe Bonomo's well-written take on Roger Angell's musings on baseball.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Bryce Emley
The pain wasn’t in dying/ but in belief in you, that you required of me
FaithThe Word
Jesus’ determination to travel to Jerusalem is the pivot on which Luke’s Gospel turns.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
Religious liberty and the relationship between church and state are two issues that have long vexed the Catholic Church, particularly since the Enlightenment.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Do you have a “guilty pleasure” hymn that you love?
Politics & SocietyLetters
Our readers

A Spiritual Work of Mercy

Re “The Catholic High School That Holds Funerals for Homeless Veterans,” by Michael Kotsopoulos (5/26): Great article, very well written and a great message both in the article and in what those young men are doing!

Politics & SocietyLast Take
Cokie Roberts
Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.