Maybe the only prayer I can utter this Thanksgiving is: Teach me to be grateful.
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Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Austen Ivereigh on writing a book with Pope Francis (during a pandemic)
In this bonus episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and papal biographer Austen Ivereigh discuss Pope Francis’ view of the George Floyd protests, the #MeToo movement and how the work of clerical sexual abuse survivors are an integral part of people reclaiming their dignity.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Mexican church and civic leader cancel public Guadalupe celebrations
Mexican church and civic officials have canceled public feast celebrations for Mexico’s patroness at her shrine in Mexico City due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
We should stop filming the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
An e-Eucharist can be unsacramental and even anti-sacramental.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S. bishops’ internal memo: Catholics can take Covid-19 vaccines
An internal memo corrects “some confusion in the media regarding the moral permissibility of using the vaccines.” But at least two bishops have cast doubt on the moral permissibility of the vaccines.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I’m a priest and public health professor. Here’s my advice for rethinking the holidays this year.
The C.D.C. wants Americans to stay home for the holidays. What can we do when what we sincerely hope for simply is not possible?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis talks about Uighurs, George Floyd and Universal Basic Income in new interview
The book-length interview is the product of a series of exchanges between the pope and Austen Ivereigh, his English-language biographer.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Why this Jesuit middle school is staying open while NYC public schools go remote
For Black, brown and poor students in-person schooling is an essential service.
Posted inFaith, Features
The single life is a sacred vocation—and it’s more fulfilling than our culture leads you to believe.
A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
St. Hildegard gives us a recipe for joy—even during a pandemic
Hildegard von Bingen’s five ingredients for an abundant life.