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FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Just before the announcement was made, the pope met with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and discussed the sexual abuse scandal affecting the Catholic Church in the country.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Damien Chazelle’s "First Man" is a remarkably idiosyncratic movie, given the usual heroic/fantastic presentation on screen of space travel—or anything involving the heavens.
Arts & CultureTheater
Michael J. O’Loughlin
"Downstate" poses a number of uncomfortable questions, relevant and challenging both in light of the ongoing #MeToo movement and the church’s continued grappling with its sexual abuse scandal.
Arts & CultureFilm
Eve Tushnet
"The Wolf House" is a Chilean political horror film that explores the traumas of childhood abuse.
synod hall
FaithFaith
James Martin, S.J.
First, can the synod use the term “L.G.B.T.” in its documents? Second, can the synod acknowledge that gay couples can form a “family”?
FaithVantage Point
Óscar Romero
"We know that every effort to better a society, especially one that is so enmeshed in injustice and in sin, is an effort that God blesses, that God desires, that God demands of us."
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
A new documentary about Blessed Óscar Romero, featuring a rare interview with him, revealed the martyred archbishop's thoughts regarding accusations that he became too progressive.
FaithDispatches
Luke Hansen
The church must go out and encounter young people “in detention centers, at the borders.”
FaithNews
Kate Blain - Catholic News Service
All 17 passengers in the limo and its driver were killed when the car ran through a stop sign, struck two pedestrians and a parked car, and landed in a shallow ravine.
FaithNews
Marcos Aleman - Associated Press
On Sunday in the Vatican, Pope Francis will officially make Romero a saint nearly four decades after he was martyred by an assassin's bullet to the heart.
FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
A report on Catholic campus ministry at U.S. colleges and universities found nearly nonexistent ministry at the nation's community colleges.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The U.S. Supreme Court, no stranger to death penalty cases, is looking very narrowly at two aspects of capital punishment this term.
FaithNews
Chaz Muth - Catholic News Service
Seminarian John Washington from the Archdiocese of Atlanta spent his summer tending to Washington state's bountiful apple trees, speaking "field Spanish" with Latino migrant workers, learning about life in the migrant camps and bringing the Gospel to the agricultural laborers.
Arts & CultureBooks
America Video
Tomie dePaola speaks with America executive editor Kerry Weber about his latest book "Quiet" and what he hopes children will learn from his work.
FaithJesuitical
Ashley McKinless
You can build a more intentional life in the city or the suburbs, out in the country or right on campus.
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
“What is important now is...not concentrating on myself but helping this church to get to a new place.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a two page-letter, Pope Francis made clear not only his personal esteem for the cardinal but also that he stands by him, and the reasons for this.
FaithFaith in Focus
Patrick Gothman
I wonder what you would feel if you knew me. If you saw what the lives you ask us to lead are actually like.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Speaking to the Synod of Bishops on behalf of Belgium's bishops' conference, a bishop said he was sure some young married men would become priests if they were asked.
FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
While Cardinal O’Malley is perhaps the highest-ranking church official charged with examining how the church handles allegations of sexual abuse, he does not have jurisdiction over other bishops and the commission he leads does not investigate specific claims.