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FaithNews
Emily Benson — Catholic News Service
"In a time of so much darkness, so much pain, you will leave here today enfolded in the love of Jesus and the love of this community."
FaithNews
Kurt Jensen - Catholic News Service
Next year's March for Life plans to fortify its pro-life message with science that proves life begins at conception and with a specific focus on stem-cell research.
FaithNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The firestorm surrounding the clergy sex abuse crisis and the way some bishops handled allegations of abuse against priests will be an important part of the agenda of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' fall general assembly.
 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then nuncio to the United States, and then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, are seen in a combination photo during the beatification Mass of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J., Oct. 4, 2014. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In this third letter Archbishop Viganò no longer insists that the restrictions that he claimed Benedict XVI had imposed on Archbishop McCarrick can be understood as “sanctions.”
FaithJesuitical
Olga Segura
Kevin Clarke tells us about his reporting from Iraq.
FaithEditorials
The Editors
For U.S. Catholics, every synod is also a valuable reminder—and corrective—that it is not all about us.
Arts & CulturePoetry
David Craig
Let every enemy I’ve made be blessed, double;
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Christopher Jolly Hale
For decades, the U.S. church has gifted its public servants with the social teachings and magisterium of the church.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Whatever we give—time, resources, skills, attention—the offering ought to be like the widow’s: complete, courageous and with total trust in grace.
FaithThe Word
Michael Simone, S.J.
Jesus drew on the biblical meaning of love, commanding unwavering loyalty to God and neighbor.
Arts & CultureBooks
Peter Morgan
The narrator’s voice in Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel is a subtle balance of crisp and curmudgeonly, indulging in dark comedy as a distancing, if not even a coping, mechanism.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jennifer Owens-Jofré
Natalia Imperatori-Lee draws upon a variety of sources to develop an ecclesiology that is shaped by narratives as much as dogmatic theology.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Matthew Lee Anderson
Whether evangelicalism survives Donald J. Trump depends upon whether it has leaders who are able to disentangle its political witness from the dimensions of Mr. Trump’s presidency that have so clearly scandalized the Gospel witness.
A Mass is celebrated at Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco. (iStock/yhelfman)
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan

Compared with other Christians in the United States, Catholics are more likely to attend church to please other family members—and are significantly less likely to go because they “find the sermons valuable.” Those were among the findings of a Pew Research Center poll released in August. Pew interviewed 4,729 U.S. adults, including 844 self-identified Catholics, last December to find out why they regularly attended church or stayed away.

A new crime-prevention strategy treats physical violence as a disease, or a contagion that is spread from one person to another. (iStock)
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Eileen Markey
From the streets of Chicago to hospital halls in the Bronx, volunteers are trying to end the national scourge of gun violence by treating it as a virus, preventing victims from becoming perpetrators.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
A fatalistic attitude is not the proper response to climate change.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
“The church should provide opportunities for young people to live out their faith in the world, not just keep it in a building during class or Mass.”
MagazineYour Take
Our readers
"I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If anyone deserves to be a saint, it is Óscar Romero."
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Who do we mean when we say “the church”?
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Brandon Sanchez
The night—at times weighed down by sobering reminders of abuse—was overlaid with levity.