Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston is urging local Catholics to contribute resources for migrants arriving in Massachusetts, calling the situation a “major humanitarian and societal crisis.”
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Podcast: The power of vulnerability when preaching in a retreat or parish setting
In this “Preach” episode, Sarah Hansman delivers a homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, and shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., how her corporate experience prepared her to take risks and practice vulnerability in preaching.
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Podcast: A synod insider on evangelization and World Mission Sunday
In this bonus episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Inés San Martín, the former Rome bureau chief of Crux and current vice president of marketing and communications at the Vatican’s U.S. missionary fundraising organ.
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Man who killed 6-year-old Palestinian boy in Illinois is a Catholic parishioner
Joseph Czuba of Plainfield, Illinois, and his wife are members of St. Mary Immaculate Parish.
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Should the church expect donations with Mass requests?
In an essay published on America’s website in September, John F. Baldovin, S.J., examined the theological soundness of making a monetary offering for the sake of “having a Mass said” for an individual.
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Meet the lay woman who led the U.S. synod process
In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Julia McStravog, a senior advisor on the Synod on Synodality at the U.S.C.C.B., to get an inside look into how the U.S. church organized itself to carry out the national and continental phases of the synod, and how those phases inform the ongoing meeting in Rome.
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Who was S. J. Adamo? This priest-columnist spilled all the tea.
The Rev. S. J. Adamo wrote over 130 columns for America on “The Press,” and seemingly had plenty of fun along the way.
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Archdiocese of Mobile launches new investigation into priest who fled to Italy with 18-year-old woman
The Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama, has launched its own investigation regarding disgraced priest Father Alex Crow, who fled to Italy with a recent female graduate of an archdiocesan high school.
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Interview: Get to know Jerusalem’s first cardinal
Energetic, resolutely modern, as comfortable with technology as with theology, and deeply cosmopolitan, Patriarch Pizzaballa shares Pope Francis’ intention to restore Jerusalem to its former glory.
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Do most Catholics think the Eucharist is ‘just a symbol’? It’s complicated.
Maybe the crisis of disbelief in the Eucharist is not as dire as previously thought.