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Paul Gross and George Clooney in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’
Arts & Culture
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Fan service isn’t just for Marvel movies. It’s alive and well in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow.’
Anthony Quinn and Leo McKern in ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’ (MGM)
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Tim Reidy
FaithScripture Reflections
Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
A Reflection for Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
FaithFeatures
J.D. Long García
And how the church can accompany couples struggling with infertility
Kelly Reilly and Brendan Gleeson in the movie ‘Calvary.’ (CNS photo/20th Century Fox)
Arts & CultureFilm
Jake Martin
Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Aileen Cassinetto
Like little sunsets, like a song of ascents, I wish to remember my father.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Grace LenahanJoe Hoover, S.J.James Davis May
These are poems that grip your heart, stretch your mind and startle your soul awake.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joseph P. Creamer
In 'Liberalism as a Way of Life,' Alexandre Lefebvre argues that for secular people, liberalism, if practiced intentionally, can be the grace they are seeking in their ordinary lives.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kristy Savage
in 'Finding God Along the Way,' Christine Marie Eberle masterfully weaves together Scripture, poetry and Ignatian spirituality.
Arts & CultureBooks
In 'Cultural Catholics,' Maureen K. Day works to answer the question of who “cultural Catholics” really are—and how to connect with them.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jenny Shank
Jared Lemus’s robust, melancholy debut short story collection 'Guatemalan Rhapsody' gives us characters who strive for love, respect or mere survival in tales that unfold in Guatemalan towns or among immigrant communities in the United States.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
America's readers discuss the influence of Pope Francis' Jesuit formation on his papal ministry.
Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home, which cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care and PEPFAR-supplied anti-retroviral drugs in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Luke Messac
The longer PEPFAR remains hobbled, the greater the number of patients who will suffer the terrifying consequences of stopped treatment—a kind of reverse Lazarus effect.
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Estefanía Salazar
“My brother has never committed a crime in Venezuela or elsewhere. His only mistake has been to enter the United States as a migrant. He has been labeled as a Tren de Aragua member just because of his tattoos.”
Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican on May 10, 2025. In his remarks to the cardinals, the pope said that church teaching is relevant to “developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.” (Vatican Media via AP)
FaithShort Take
Matthew Dunch
In these early days of the A.I. revolution, a lesson from the first Industrial Revolution holds firm. Catholic social teaching instructs us to look beyond machinery to people.
FaithNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV on May 18, the vice president’s office said.
FaithNews
Gina Christian - OSV News
Amid immigration raids and emptying pews, the Nashville diocese is reminding faithful that they are not required to attend Mass if they fear for their well-being, according to the church’s own teaching and canon law.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.