Amid the global pandemic of Covid-19 that has spread throughout this Lenten season, calling on the Mother of Sorrows feels all the more urgent.
Lent
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The right (and wrong) ways for Catholics to host a Passover Seder
As Christians have become more familiar and neighborly with people of other religious traditions, we have extended that familiarity to appreciation, and sometimes appreciation becomes appropriation.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
In his Passion, Christ is true to his preaching
The preaching of our Lord in the Gospel of St. Matthew—the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, the parables—has come to a close. Now the preacher embraces his passion.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
This Lent, U.S. Catholics are called to reckon with the sin of capital punishment
In the middle lands of these 40 days, I am burdened by the fact that our society has not yet reckoned with the ongoing sin of capital punishment nor the full extent of our country’s racist past.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to those isolated because of the coronavirus: ‘United to Christ, we are never alone’
In a video address, Pope Francis thanked caregivers and assured his audience that ‘spiritual communion‘ remains strong even during the isolation of the coronavirus epidemic. Gerard O’Connell reports from the Vatican.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Is diet culture obscuring the purpose of Lent?
What if the way that we’re approaching fasting and dieting is harmful—especially to our neighbors who inhabit larger bodies?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
For Lent, let’s give up a treat that exploits child labor
The production of chocolate still depends on millions of child laborers in Africa, writes Christie Klimas. Fortunately, both popular and premium brands are moving toward justice for cocoa farmers.
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican Lenten meditation offered online amid coronavirus concerns
The Friday reflections in Lent, like in Advent, usually are led by the official “preacher of the papal household,” who, for the past 40 years, has been Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
America’s Lenten Guide to the Best Fish Sandwiches
It’s Friday and we know what you want to know: What fish sandwich should you eat today?