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“The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer,” 1883, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Wikimedia Commons)
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
No one dies for God as an unspeakable mystery, as simply the word we use for the openness of the human spirit.
 Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, president of the India bishops' conference, attends a news conference to discuss the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican Oct. 9. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The issues that concern young Asians are different from those of their counterparts in the West, the Indian cardinal said.
FaithVideo
America Video
Fr. James Martin reflects on his favorite saints. This week's topic: Servant of God Dorothy Day.
People wait to see Pope Francis during his visit to the Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Aug. 26. The pope’s visit was still a major event in Ireland, but the repeal of the ban on blasphemy is one more sign of secularization. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
FaithShort Take
Kevin Hargaden
Before the vote, the Irish bishops called the law against blasphemy “largely obsolete,” and its demise makes for a more constructive social arrangement than Catholic hegemony.
Arts & CultureArt
Karen Sue Smith
For the first time, viewers in the United States can see 193 of Hilma af Klint's earliest abstractions in “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Many of the great saints typify one or more of the beatitudes.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kyle Gautreau
After 300 years, New Orleans remains one of our most unique—and troubled—cities.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on "Inside the Vatican," Colleen and Gerry unpack the final document from the Synod on Young People.
Politics & Society
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Trafficking is known as modern-day slavery because human beings are essentially bought and sold in a highly profitable industry. The International Labor Organization reported in 2014 that traffickers earn $150 billion annually.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Thousands of people gathered outside and inside the Sailors and Soldiers Memorial Hall of the University of Pittsburgh Oct. 28 at an interfaith service to mourn the victims of the horrific shooting a day earlier at the Tree of Life synagogue.
Politics & SocietyNews
Associated Press
Lawyers for the family of a 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983 pressed Italian prosecutors and the Vatican on Wednesday for more details regarding human bone fragments found in an annex of the Holy See's embassy in Rome.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catherine Lucey - Associated PressJill Colvin - Associated PressColleen Long - Associated Press
Thousands of U.S. troops to stop an "invasion" of migrants. Tent cities for asylum seekers. An end to the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Politics & SocietyNews
Associated Press
For the first time since fleeing South Sudan more than two years ago, opposition leader Riek Machar returned on Wednesday to take part in a nationwide peace celebration.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Brandon Sanchez
Regardless of who wins in November, what happens next for the social-justice movement in America?
Politics & Society
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
Since its release, more than a dozen attorneys general around the country have announced investigations of their own, seeking church records about what diocesan authorities knew of past abuse.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Countries do not develop by themselves; they are built by migrants, Pope Francis said.
Politics & SocietyNews
Laurie Kellman—Associated PressCatherine Lucey - Associated Press
President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens.
Central American migrants reach the shore on the Mexican side of the Suchiate River after wading across from Guatemala on Oct. 20. Thousands of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are making their way north through Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Antonio De Loera-Brust
The real threat to the United States is not the unarmed migrants making a dangerous trek through Mexico, it is the fear and hate that sensationalized coverage of the caravan has fomented.