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America’s reviewers were not enthusiastic about new plays from Arthur Miller and Archibald MacLeish (photo: Alamy)
Arts & CultureTheater
Theophilus LewisDaniel Berrigan
Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Vengeance, retribution and pitiless justice only amplify the power of sin.
FaithFeatures
G. B. Harrison
From 1969: The difficulties encountered by those who worked long and hard to give us a truly contemporary prayer language in English are here set forth by one who participated in the mammoth task.
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Thurston N. Davis
From 1955: How wide should the concerns of the Catholic journalist be?
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
We are like the angel messengers at the tomb: to interpret the signs of Christ’s presence and activity.
FaithJesuitical
Zac Davis
Could paying attention to the Vatican regularly become a spiritual practice and put the headlines you see about the church in context?
FaithLent Reflections
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
Engulfed in sorrow or distress, we may not feel his presence, but he is there nonetheless, walking through that deep dark valley and surrounding us with his love.
FaithDispatches
J.D. Long García
“For Jesus, it wasn’t about taking the right stand on issues. It was about standing in the right place.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Meinrad Scherer-Emunds - Catholic News Service
While murders have decreased since 2015-2016, when El Salvador had the world's highest murder rate, disappearances have increased, and the murder rate remains among the worst in the world.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has rejected an appeal by the now-former Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana, Guam, upholding its judgment of finding him guilty of abuse against minors.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Bill McGarvey
For high school seniors, existential angst about what schools they will get into, how much aid they will receive and how much debt they will need to take on to get a degree has become a national rite of passage.
Arts & CultureFilm
Eve Tushnet
The event that takes place in “The Devil’s Doorway,” a horror film from the Irish director Aislinn Clarke, may or may not be a miracle—but it exposes a truth about who we are, we who crucified Christ.
FaithLent Reflections
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
If we truly want to be disciples of God, we must subjugate our proud selves to his will and bow down in obedience.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
"History was not built in one day; history is a long process. And I think we have to put ourselves in this perspective."
Politics & SocietyNews
Texas previously allowed state-employed clergy to accompany inmates into the room where they'd be executed, but its prison staff included only Christian and Muslim clerics.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we unpack some of our main takeaways from Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation on young people, “Christus Vivit.”
Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory concelebrates Mass during the Catholic convocation in Orlando, Fla., in this July 2, 2017, file photo. On April 4, 2019, Pope Francis named Archbishop Gregory to head the Archdiocese of Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Archbishop Gregory has been outspoken in denouncing racism and in advocating for the pope’s pastoral vision, he is perhaps most known for his role heading the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the early 2000s.

Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams in ’Fosse/Verdon’ (Eric Liebowitz/FX)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.
“Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery,” by Guercino, 1621 (Wikimedia Commons)
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Unless we remove all of the people, we will never produce a sinless church, one that pursues the good without also perpetrating some evil.
FaithFaith in Focus
Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.
I suppose there is a line of thought in Christianity that would equate the cheap and mean with holiness, but somehow Catholicism has always found room for both Michelangelo and Mother Teresa.