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Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped the Islamic State and a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, reacts while speaking at a news conference at the International Federation for Human Rights office in Paris on Oct. 25. An international human rights group says foreign fighters, including many Europeans, were responsible for carrying out the Islamic State group's atrocities against minority Yazidis. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Politics & SocietyNews
Lori Hinnant - Associated Press
Around half of the estimated 6,800 Yazidis taken captive are still missing. Women and girls from the minority who escaped described an organized system of slavery overseen by high-ranking foreign fighters.
In this Oct. 23, 2018 photo, Ronald Lauricella cradles a kitten in his front yard in Bay County, Fla. The rural Bay County resident says some on the outskirts of the cities aren't getting needed services like electricity as fast as the populated areas. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)
Politics & SocietyNews
Tamara Lush - Associated Press
"It's a struggle. You feel frustrated because our local government seems to care more about the tourism industry than the hard-working people."
A father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a feeding center in a hospital in Hodeida, Yemen, on Sept. 27. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Joshua Heavin
After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, we must reconsider our relationship with Saudi Arabia—and can no longer turn our eyes from our complicity in the devastation of Yemen.
people standing behind bishops in a church area at the vatican
FaithDispatches
Bill McCormick, S.J.
New calls for greater synodality—and the inclusion of many more voices than just bishops—may complicate the role of collegiality in church governance.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Maryann Corbett
Because he lived till 1977,                                    his hair as white as wool
Andre Dubus III and his father, Andre Dubus (photo from the memoir, Townie)
Arts & CultureInterviews
Franklin Freeman
Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog and a memoir, Townie. A complete collection of his father’s short stories has just been published.
Jeff Gilbert / Alamy Stock Photo
Arts & CultureIdeas
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Peterson urges his followers to seek deep meaning rather than superficial happiness. But can he create a community?
FaithCulture
Kurt Jensen - Catholic News Service
With Father O’Malley, Crosby “concocted a fantasy priest—a perfect, albeit celibate, man.”
FaithFaith in Focus
Madeline E. Lacovara
Further rounds of “apologies” and requests for prayers are inadequate. We have heard all that before. The resounding theme at my parish event was that it is now time for the church to act.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
There is “a wonderful spirit” at the synod and Cardinal Nichols thinks this is due to the fact that “we’ve gone from talking about young people and from talking to young people, to talking with them. In a strange sort of way it’s become what Pope Francis means by synodality.”
FaithDispatches
Luke Hansen
“We have a picture of what the goal looks like—the dignity of women, women feeling appreciated, their gifts being used—but how do you get there?”
Politics & SocietyJesuitical
Zac Davis
What’s at stake in the upcoming midterm elections?
Politics & SocietyNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
Gold explained how the U.S. had been involved over the years in El Salvador, inadvertently creating the conditions that fomented the growth of gangs in the Central American country shortly after the 1980-1992 civil war that was partially funded by the U.S. government.
FaithNews
Robert Duncan - Catholic News ServiceAnne Condodina - Catholic News Service
The more than 250 Catholic bishops from around the world meeting at the Vatican in October missed an opportunity to confront the global sex abuse crisis, said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia.
FaithNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Members of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in this southern Mexican city rose early Oct. 24 to feed but a fraction of the Central American migrants traveling in a caravan, which is trying to traverse Mexico and reach the United States border.
Arts & CultureBooks
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Elizabeth Seton—who overcame innumerable obstacles to pursue her vocation—was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be named a saint.
Arts & CultureBooks
James T. Keane
With this Fall Books literary issue, we offer writers and texts that we certainly feel are best read closely and conscientiously.
FaithFaith and Reason
David E. DeCosse
The U.S. bishops need to revise—or replace— "Faithful Citizenship" in order to better reflect the teaching of Pope Francis and to respond to the authoritarian populist nationalism of Donald Trump and his administration.
Kerry Bishé in ‘The Romanoffs’ (Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios via AP)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
The fact is I can’t help but think of Weiner and his relationship with women as I’m watching his new series for Amazon.