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FaithNews
Sean Carroll, S.J.
For me, the teachings of the Catholic Church are as clear as God’s commands to the people of Israel in Hebrew Scriptures: We are called to welcome widows, orphans, the poor and migrants.
Migrants stand in front of a barrier at the border with Hungary near the village of Horgos, Serbia, on Sept. 16, 2015. (Photo courtesy of Reuters/Marko Djurica)
Politics & SocietyNews
Tom Heneghan - Religion News Service
Even as Europeans vastly overestimate the actual Muslim populations of their countries, majorities across Europe are deeply concerned about Muslim immigration and support an immediate end to it.
U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, patron of the Knights of Malta, gives a speech on marriage in Chester, England, on March 6. (CNS photo/Simon Caldwell)
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Three men have publicly accused Archbishop Apuron of sexually abusing them when they were altar boys in the 1970s
Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M., prays on Nov. 16 during the opening of the 2015 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Bishop Cantu's letter comes as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson begins his time as the chief foreign affairs adviser to President Donald Trump.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Apartheid-era mental health care facilities were not great. But at least they weren't lethal.
Oblate Father John Crossin is pictured talking with Humaira Basith of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago in this 2012 photo. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Pew Research Center found that warmer feelings toward various religions were expressed by people in all of the participating major religious groups.
Arts & CulturePoetry
John Bellinger

Al Kiddush Hashem(to sanctify His name)
We will climb this last cold hillside
where morning leaves its breath
upon the uncomplaining stones,

Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, mother provincial of the Denver-based Little Sisters of the Poor, outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington March 23, 2016 after attending oral arguments in the Zubik v. Burwell contraceptive mandate case (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters).
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Stephanie Slade
The Bill of Rights has failed to protect religious groups from legal assault on a number of occasions since our nation’s founding. Can it happen again?
FaithFaith in Focus
Gus Hardy
Looking back, I find it remarkable that I believed in God to begin with. Autism is a condition that does not allow for many gray areas in one’s worldview.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
An appearance at the Vatican is often used by supporters to signal papal support for an individual or a cause, but the reality is far more complex.
Arts & CultureBooks
Mark J. Davis
Leading those who believed it was America’s destiny to acquire an empire were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Theodore Roosevelt, a newly minted war hero.
Arts & CultureBooks
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
The story of a corrupt president, Boris Yeltsin, and his successor, Putin, trying to reconstruct their country as a world power
FaithLast Take
​Helen Alvaré
Pope Francis reminds us to get back to basics in a way that is desperately needed.
President Donald Trump speaks to troops at the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.,Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Tim Padgett
“It was remarkable to see a mayor of one of the largest and most diverse and vibrant immigrant communities in the nation be the first to capitulate” to Mr. Trump’s threat.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Matthew Wooters, S.J. CR Wooters
Repealing DACA would tear apart families and hurt the economy, while ripping the moral fabric that makes our immigrant nation great.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 2 in Washington. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Those opposing the order say it would legalize discrimination and was too far-reaching
A journalist holds a copy of a book by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, on Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, "Amoris Laetitia," during its presentation at the Vatican on Feb. 14.(CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The intention to change "is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the Eucharist as long as there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin."
Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, is pictured here in a 2000 photo. (CNS photo/Paulo Carrico, EPA)
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Father Romano Gambalunga said that while "Lucia is already a saint in the eyes" of many people, "the prudent path of the church is that she is proposed to all, not just those who believe."
FaithVideo
America Video
What does the Bible say about helping refugees, migrants and foreigners? James Martin, S.J., explains that it's pretty clear.
U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg is overseeing a lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux, two Dakotas tribes who maintain the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois threatens their drinking water and cultural sites. (Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM via AP)
Politics & SocietyNews
Sam Hananel - Associated Press
The company called the religion argument a "last-minute delay tactic."