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Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a professor of psychology and president of the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, in 2015. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
A member of the committee organizing Pope Francis' February summit on the sexual abuse crisis said the meeting should include discussing ways to hold bishops accountable for handling cases correctly.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Alessandro Gisotti, an Italian journalist who is the social media coordinator for the Dicastery for Communications, has been appointed by the pope as interim director.
FaithNews Analysis
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis marked the fifth anniversary of his election in March in the midst of a firestorm over his handling of clerical sexual abuse and bishops' accountability in Chile.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
The year may be coming to an end but the battles on the immigration front promise to continue well into 2019 and beyond.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Vice” isn’t a dishonest movie, exactly. It just enables dishonesty.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Scott Hubbartt
My love wakes me
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican has taken testimony from a man who says ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11, evidence that the initial case against the retired archbishop has expanded to include serious allegations of sexual misconduct, including in the confessional.
FaithLast Take
Nathan W. O'Halloran, S.J.
Notre Dame is proud of its slogan: “God, Country, Notre Dame” (in that order). But the ease with which the punctuation slides into “God Country: Notre Dame” has a lot to do with football.
Arts & CultureArt
Bill McGarvey
Nathaniel Kahn's "The Price of Everything" features a veritable Greek chorus of modern-art market luminaries.
FaithFaith in Focus
Kerry Weber
If we look at the qualities required to fulfill the request rather than the connotation of the word itself, what is simply being asked of women and men is sacrificial love.
Politics & SocietyNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
Many worried, however, that just like the government shutdown, periodic acts aimed against migrants would continue, and they urged politicians to put their differences aside to find lasting solutions to stem the flow and the danger posed to human beings who face the consequences of policy.
Ted Danson plays an avuncular demon in ‘The Good Place’ (photo: NBC).
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jonathan Malesic
What if you could improve yourself after you are dead? This appealing prospect drives two current TV comedies.
Photo: AP
FaithFeatures
Sonja Livingston
It has taken a trip to Epiphany City for me to fully grasp that, when it comes to faith, I have barely gotten my feet wet.
A father gives water to his severely malnourished daughter at a feeding center in Hodeida, Yemen, in September 2018. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ten percent of the world’s people are still living in extreme poverty, and this year nearly 132 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection, mostly because of the effects of armed conflict.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Respondents reported a variety of accommodations for people with disabilities in their parishes, while also calling on their communities to do more to support parishioners with special needs.
Arts & CultureBooks
Thomas Jacobs
Lynn Monahan has done a superb job of capturing the feel of Andean Latin America—the shabby metropolis of middle-class Lima, the precariousness of a bus ride up the ragged side of a mountain, the poverty and rich culture of the rural Quechua people.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
The baptism of Jesus is the first demonstration of the loving relationship that all believers will come to share with God.
Arts & CultureBooks
Gregory Hillis
Judith Valente explores how the Rule of Benedict offers wisdom for those of us outside the cloister.
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
As is our annual custom, we republish excerpts from these texts here as an expression of our solidarity with the women and men who will march this month in the nation’s capital.
MagazineLetters
Our readers

Meet in the Middle

Re “The 2018 America Profile,” by Matt Malone, S.J. (12/24): Candidates in the mold of Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana are definitely the smart path for Democrats. And more moderation would benefit Republicans as well. Meeting in the middle is the only logical way forward.

Bryan Craig

 

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