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FaithNews
Michael R. Heinlein - OSV News
In a lengthy interview with OSV News, Archbishop Richard G. Henning addressed his recent appointment as archbishop of Boston and shared his hopes for his new ministry.
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
August 25, 2024, the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: After five Sundays in a row, the bread of life discourse from the Gospel of John reaches its anticlimactic close.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
“Right now, Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot meet with one another, at least not publicly,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, patriarch of Jerusalem.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
J.D. Long García
The difference between the GOP and Democratic party platforms is acute on the hot-button topic of immigration, an issue on which the U.S. bishops have weighed in consistently over the last 20 years.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaks at a campaign rally on Aug. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Logan M. Isaac
JD Vance should publicly retract his comment about Mr. Walz “abandoning his unit” lest it lend credence to false guilt felt by many of our military veterans.
FaithNews
Caroline De Sury — OSV News
During the Paris Olympic Games, track champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line. In December, that same bell will ring in the newly reopened Notre Dame Cathedral during the most sacred part of the Mass.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
In the July-August issue of America, Emma Camp argued that a person with doubts about God's existence could still benefit from attending Mass.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Elizabeth Ann Seton has only officially been a saint for 49 years, a blink of an eye in the timeline of the church. But in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States, she is a towering figure.
Politics & SocietyVantage Point
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.
FaithFaith in Focus
William Critchley-Menor, S.J.
His Catholicism was enriched by an image of God as “older than all need,” an image that reflected the ancient wisdom of his people.
FaithNews
David Agren - OSV News
Totalitarian Nicaraguan State under President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo attacks Catholic groups with forced closures. 
A get-out-the-vote display, with candidate signs among bales of hay, at the Niobrara County Fair in Lusk, Wyo., on July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Beacom
The “weird” meme, popularized by the Harris-Walz campaign, goes hand in hand with a longstanding ridicule of rural America, and it is punching down on some of the most disadvantaged people in our society.
FaithScripture Reflections
Cecilia González-Andrieu
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle, by Cecilia González-Andrieu
FaithScripture Reflections
Jill Rice
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Jill Rice
FaithScripture Reflections
Zac Davis
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope, by Zac Davis
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, prayed for God’s guidance in ‘this new chapter of our nation’s history’ as Joe Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The movement was founded in 1971 as a lay community to recruit “soldiers for God,” one of several Catholic societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, by Tim Reidy
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Drawing on work of lay Catholic prison chaplain Dale Recinella, Pope Francis paints death penalty as toxic and ineffective.