Jean Denis Saint-Félix, S.J.: “Nobody wants to stay in this hell. People are seeking ways to enter, no matter how, the United States,” even “knowing the danger and risks they go through.”
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Posted inFaith, News
Church Militant will cease publication in April after losing defamation suit
The troubled Catholic outlet’s fate was announced by a law firm representing a priest who had sued Church Militant for defamation.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The Eucharist is the ‘source and summit’ of Christian life. What does that really mean?
Is our intense focus on the form of liturgical celebration placing a disproportionate emphasis upon the Eucharist as the summit of Christian life?
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Catholic charities and religious freedom are under fire at the border
If in its first years, the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom seemed directed at the U.S. left, it is actors on the hard right who have now emerged as the most significant threat to religious freedom.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
John Patrick Shanley on ‘Doubt,’ sex abuse and his Catholic upbringing
In an interview with Rob Weinert-Kendt, the playwright John Patrick Shanley discusses the continued resonance of ‘Doubt.‘
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Dolan on St. Pat’s funeral for transgender activist: ‘I think our cathedral acted extraordinarily well’
Despite the irreverent “homecoming” funeral for actor and author Cecilia Gentili not going as planned, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he believes the “cathedral acted extraordinarily well.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
This Chicago chef teaches inmates to cook. Pope Francis told him to keep going.
He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When my siblings died by suicide, the church failed us. Now, it’s finally listening.
The gift of my Catholic faith is one I cherish above all others. And, yet, how do I love a church that once considered my brother and sister to be unworthy of eternal life with God?
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Bipartisan child tax credit deal could reverse a historic spike in child poverty
The child tax credit enhancements will lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line in 2024 and move an additional 3 million U.S. children in deep poverty closer to the poverty line.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics are politically divided about the 2024 election. That’s an opportunity for the church.
The Catholic partisan divide provides an opportunity for the church to model proper civic behavior.