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FaithYour Take
Our readers
Listeners of Jesuitical offer their own answer to the podcast's recurring question.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jack Downey
As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.
A man holds a life-size cutout of new St. Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan of India before the canonization Mass for five new saints celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Oct. 13. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
John Paul II canonized more saints (482) than the popes from the previous 500 years combined, and Pope Francis is more than keeping up.
 A man holds a banner showing new St. John Henry Newman before the canonization Mass for five new saints celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithFaith in Focus
Gregory Hillis
Like Newman, I am a convert to Roman Catholicism, but it is the way Newman converted that is most important to me.
Supporters of a public statue for St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in New York City march behind a Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., banner during the Columbus Day Parade in New York City on Oct. 14, 2019. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Noting that Mother Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized by the Catholic Church, Gov. Cuomo added, in perhaps a dig at political rival New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, “She is certainly deserving of a statue.”
FaithBooks
Diane Scharper
In this book, Danny commits lies of omission as he does not tell his sister how much he hates their mother for essentially leaving them to whatever fate throws their way.