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In recent years, a new kind of hostility has developed toward any hint of faith in the practice of health care. But the idea that health care must be a religion-free zone is absolutely bizarre.
James Martin, S.J., shares the lessons he learned as a young Jesuit about accompaniment.
A homeless person sleeps under a blanket outside a window display in New York on Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
For decades, the United States has responded to homelessness with small change. It’s time to think big and treat housing as a human right.
A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Jim McDermott
Leonard Feeney, writes Avery Dulles, S.J., in this 1978 encomium, should be remembered for more than his actions that led to his excommunication. He was a gifted orator, apologist, writer and counselor.
Bishops in bright red and gold vestments are pictured as Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow celebrates the Divine Liturgy
Why one Orthodox patriarch can denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even while another supports it
Indigenous performer Danielle Migwans attends a march on Canada Day in Toronto on July 1, 2021, after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the grounds of two former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada. More than two dozen Indigenous delegates, accompanied by a handful of Canadian bishops, plan to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican March 28-April 1. (CNS photo/Carlos Osorio, Reuters)
To face the challenge of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, Canada’s bishops will need to reinvent themselves.
I’ve often said that as a Catholic feminist covering the Vatican, I cannot wait until it is no longer newsworthy when women take on greater leadership roles in the church, but it is de rigeur.
On Day 32 of the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis made another passionate appeal to political leaders “to understand that every day of war makes worse the situation for everyone.”
Pope Francis embraces Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud after praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
The portrait of Pope Francis that emerges from conversations with his friends is that of a man as resolutely down-to-earth and dependably Argentinian as his immigrant neighborhood.