A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
Faith
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Mercy was essential for my mental health journey. Now I want to pass it on to others.
Trying to be a perfect Christian can be taken too far.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Cardinal Ricard confessed to abusing a 14-year-old. What we know and what the Vatican will do next
The former conference president Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard admitted he behaved in a “reprehensible way with a 14-year-old girl” 35 years ago. Here’s where his case stands at the Vatican.
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Podcast: The church needs younger deacons—and older priests
It’s no secret that the priesthood in the United States is aging, quickly. But what if part of the solution to the priest shortage is actually ordaining more older priests?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis received Father James Martin in private audience for the second time
Pope Francis received James Martin, S.J., for the second time in private audience in the papal library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning, Nov. 11.
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Remembering Father Quealy: the first Catholic chaplain killed in Vietnam
Father Michael Quealy, the first military chaplain killed in action in Vietnam, was honored on the day of his death in the Reading of the Names ceremony.
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Pope Francis: Seminaries should form humble servants—not ‘supermen’
The mission of a seminary “is not to form ‘supermen’ who pretend to know and control everything,” but to help seminarians become priests who are humble servants, Pope Francis said.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Leaning on faith after the midterm elections
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time, by Michael O’Loughlin
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Podcast: What a prominent cardinal’s admission of abuse means for the Catholic Church in France
On “Inside the Vatican” this week, host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell explain what is known about Cardinal Ricard’s confession that he “conducted himself in a reprehensible fashion” with a 14 year old girl.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Interview: Andrew Sullivan on being openly gay and Catholic
In 1993, America executive editor Thomas H. Stahel, S.J., interviewed the prominent political pundit Andrew Sullivan on, among other issues, homosexuality and the Catholic Church.