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In Latin American immigrant communities, lay faith leaders adapt a ritual of mourning that builds community amid isolation.
Faithful in Miami sing during Mass at St. Mary Cathedral on the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15, 2021. (CNS photo/Marlene Quaroni, Florida Catholic)
At some parishes a battle line has been drawn between parishioners willing to mask up again and those who perceive masks as unnecessary, ineffective or, at worst, a violation of their freedom.
While American Catholics today would unequivocally condemn the institution of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, most do not see or work against one of its most prominent present-day manifestations: mass incarceration.
People evacuated from Afghanistan step off a bus as they arrive at a processing center.
Keeping Our Promise, a volunteer-run refugee resettlement organization, partners closely with churches, synagogues and faith-based organizations to help Special Immigrant Visa hopefuls in Afghanistan.
A Catholic pastor receives the first of the two Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations
Priests navigate Catholics' fears and hesitancies in vaccine exemption requests to balance love for neighbor and self with individual conscience.
The rising nationwide spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus is leading church leaders to strongly encourage—or even require—Massgoers to use facial coverings while attending indoor Masses.
Transcendent, communal moments like these, so long denied us by this still raging pandemic, have been worth the wait, and they are more than worth the trouble.
A cross in silhouette against the sunset in a field with birds flying in the distance.

‘Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will surely not lose his reward.’ (Mk 9:41)

Dante and Virgil at the gates of purgatory, and the Proud carrying heavy stones, in an illustration of Canto IX of Dante’s "Purgatorio" (photo : CNS photo/Priamo della Quercia, British Library via The Public Domain Review)
What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?
The school offers an accessible but thorough examination of the Christian contemplative tradition by combining online study with in-person symposiums.