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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
"A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. It would be a contradiction of faith and life."
FaithInterviews
Sean Salai
Eduard Habsburg is a writer and diplomat who has served since 2015 as ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta.
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Arts & CultureIdeas
Lisa Ampleman
A 21st-century arts collective revives illustrating the Bible for the digital age.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Blase Cupich spoke about the synod’s method of “synodality,” the sexual and other forms of abuse of minors, the role of women in the church and migration.
FaithVideo
America Video
Watch talks by James Martin, S.J., Bishop George Murry, S.J. and more here.
In Phoenix, Az., a Maricopa County Elections official feeds a ballot into a machine during a training session on Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“I just want people to know the candidates as they really are, to know the pros and cons of all the issues, to make intelligent choices and not just simply vote this party or that party.”
A man screams beside a bus carrying Coptic Christians which came under attack outside Cairo, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. Islamic militants on Friday ambushed a bus carrying Christian pilgrims on their way to a remote desert monastery south of the Egyptian capital, killing at least seven and wounding a dozen more, the Interior Ministry said.(Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church via AP)
Politics & SocietyNews
Samy Magdy - Associated PressHamza Hendawi - Associated Press
The local Islamic State affiliate, which spearheads militants fighting security forces in the Sinai Peninsula, claimed responsibility for the attack. Though its claim could be immediately verified, IS has repeatedly stated its intention to target Egypt's Christians as punishment for their support of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
FaithFaith in Focus
Emma Winters
At first, I blamed God for my injury. Then I thanked God for every step.
A message on Gab.com, a social media site popular with far-right extremists and apparently used by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect, explains that the site is now effectively offline, banned by payment processors such as PayPal and internet infrastructure providers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ellen K. Boegel
“Trump’s words may arguably have had a tendency to encourage unlawful use of force, but they did not specifically advocate for listeners to take unlawful action.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
In some quarters, people thought anti-Semitism had been swept under the rug. But hiding it didn't mean getting rid of it, as was painfully evident in the murder of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue Oct. 27.
Politics & SocietyNews
Asia Bibi has been released from death row and prison in Pakistan and is now under heavy protective guard in a secret location with her family, reported a longtime Catholic missionary involved with negotiations in Pakistan about her case.
Politics & SocietyNews
Sarah Mac Donald - Catholic News Service
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warned there was "a danger of complacency or inertia or of slippage into false confidence" in the church's fight against clerical abuse.
Archbishop Buti J. Tlhagale. Photo by Russell Pollitt, S.J.
FaithDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
“There is palpable outrage against the Catholic Church hierarchy for its complicity, its silence and its cover-ups. For siding [with] and hiding perpetrators at the expense of victims.”
Arts & CultureFilm
Ciaran Freeman
“Boy Erased” is, at its core, a call to action. Only 14 states have passed laws protecting L.G.B.T. youth from the dangers of conversion therapy. 
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
“Each of the models brings out certain important and necessary points, but any model used in isolation will lead to distortions because each model exhibits only a particular reality” of the child of God and disciple of Jesus Christ who was Avery Dulles.
Arts & CultureBooks
And reading poetry, like the books in our 2018 poetry review, can be a great way to not make perfect sense of a thing, but to just be with a thing.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Building our lives around divine love will give our words the power to heal, to deliver and to save.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson inspects the federal department’s Fair Housing Door Exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, via Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The apparently state-sanctioned murder of Mr. Khashoggi offers the administration an opportunity to step back and reassess not just its relationship with the Saudi royal family but the overall mission of the United States throughout the Middle East.
Photo: America/iStock
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Monika Rice
For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.