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Arts & CultureFilm
Grace Copps
Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly also found in the Catholic imagination.
FaithFaith and Reason
Jason King
The world of academic theology is facing the cumulative effect of long-building forces, forces reshaping not only theology but the entire structure of higher education.
Sufjan Stevens performing on stage during a tour for the “Illinois” album (Wikimedia Commons).
Arts & CultureMusic
Christopher Parker
“Illinois” describes a state and a nation in motion, full of complicated human beings who do bad things and good things.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation.”
FaithScripture Reflections
J.D. Long García
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle, by J.D. Long García
A community gathers in resistance. Photo by Dany Díaz Mejía. Photo courtesy of Rene Aleman Resistance Camp.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dany Díaz Mejía
“We are alive only through the grace of God. At one point, I got messages saying someone had offered 1 million lempiras [$38,000] to have me killed.”
Workers unload food commodities from Catholic Relief Services and USAID in the village of Behera, near Tulear, Madagascar, Oct. 22, 2016. (OSV News Photo/Nancy McNally, Catholic Relief Services)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
FaithThe Word
July 6, 2025, the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Gently but firmly correcting their perception of “success,” Jesus invites them to remember what is truly important.
FaithNews
Kimberley Heatherington - OSV News
Catholics react to President Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill."
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
We tell stories not so much in order to live but to live in a world made more loving and compassionate because of us.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni declined to explicitly confirm the authenticity of the documents but hesaid they “presumably” were part of one of the documents forming the basis of Francis’ decision to restrict the Latin Mass.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
On Monday, the Synod of Bishops will publish the final synodal document on how local churches can implement the Synod's proposals, with Pope Leo's encouragement.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
A leading figure in academic Catholic feminism after the Second Vatican Council, Anne E. Carr was also a renowned scholar and an inspiration to generations of theologians.
FaithNews Analysis
Colleen Dulle
At the time of his appointment as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops in 2023, then-Cardinal Robert Prevost described in an interview one change he would like to see in the bishop selection process: greater involvement of lay people.
Faith
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Bishops from the conferences of Africa, Asia, and Latin America produced a joint document calling for climate justice ahead of the U.N. climate conference in November.
FaithPodcasts
James Martin, S.J.
“One of the things I find most appealing about the award-winning writer and poet Mary Karr is her forthright, almost brutal, honesty.”
FaithScripture Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Pope Leo XIV urged new archbishops to help him foster unity in a church rich in diversity. Eight of those new archbishops are from the United States, and they spoke to Catholic News Service about how they can help promote fraternity in today’s polarized world.