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People participate in the annual Pride parade, in Athens, Saturday, June 10, 2023.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Michael J. O’LoughlinChristopher Parker
In recent months, corporations and nonprofit organizations supporting L.G.B.T. Pride events have faced increased scrutiny from some conservative activists. Catholic celebrations aren’t immune.
Victoria Clark, center, in 'Kimberly Akimbo' (photo: Joan Marcus) 
Arts & CultureTheater
Jim McDermott
“Kimberly Akimbo” is about two young people who have an incredibly hopeful perspective on life. But it’s also quietly about childhood trauma.
ron desantis and wife casey bow their heads during a prayer at a campaign event, they are standing at the front of a group of people, he wears a light blue button down with a navy vest atop
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Tiffany Stanley - Associated Press
When it comes to his own Catholicism, Ron DeSantis is more guarded, rarely mentioning his specific faith practices.
hand of Christ statue
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
A Reflection for Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael Simone, S.J.
A wide shot of the inside of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen filled with parishioners.
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Deacon Fritz Bauerschmidt explains to host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., why the rapper Post Malone provided the perfect hook for his homily in this week’s episode of “Preach.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis’ recovery from the operation for an incisional hernia is “progressing well,” but on the advice of his doctors, he will not recite the midday Angelus in public from Gemelli Hospital on Sunday.
FaithScripture Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Saturday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
Joggers trot along the Reflecting Pool with the sun rising over the Washington Memorial and a thick layer of smoke, Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Washington. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Canadians experience wildfires each year owing to lightning strikes and “careless people,” but no one can recall conditions like this.
FaithNews
Tom Heneghan - Religion News Service
One cousin has already refused to accept the inheritance; four others have not yet responded. If they are smart, they will turn it down as well.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Rome’s Gemelli hospital shared photographs of some drawings, cards and crafts that children and young adults recovering in its pediatric oncology ward had sent to Pope Francis during his recovery.
A child sits against a wall and covers his face with his hands (iStock)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Arthur McCaffrey
Revelations about sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Conference underscore the fact that the modern corporate institution, whether religious or secular, can enable and conceal such abuse.
FaithScripture Reflections
Jim McDermott
A Reflection for Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jim McDermott, S.J.
FaithShort Take
Jaime Soto
What is transpiring in Sacramento is part of a long, sorrowful litany of migrants being shuffled around as fodder for the propaganda of feeble, failed ideas.
Photo of a girl watching a film in a movie theater
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
This summer, I’ll reflect on films for America each week, with an eye toward pulling out spiritual themes. First up: ”The Princess Bride.”
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Linda K. Wertheimer about her recent article about renewed efforts in some parts of the country to get prayer back into public schools.
A scene from “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” courtesy of Neon Films.
Arts & CultureFilm
Ryan Di Corpo
The film adaptation of the 2021 novel of the same name, “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” misunderstands the potency of sustained nonviolent resistance.
Arts & CultureBooks
Robert P. Imbelli
Jonathan Ciraulo claims that “Balthasar’s theology as a whole is concerned, one could say consumed, with making the Eucharist the linchpin for all speculative dogmatics.” It is worth considering the ramifications of this view in four crucial areas of theology: Christology, theological anthropology, Trinitarian theology and eschatology.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican has governance norms when a pope resigns or dies, but none of those regulations apply to a sick, unconscious or hospitalized pope.
Martin Scorsese gives Pope Francis a copy of the “Our Father: written in Osage, from Scorsese’s new movie “Killers of the Flower Moon.” (Photo courtesy of Michael Murphy)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Michael P. Murphy
What happens when 70 artists and writers come together to discuss the Catholic imagination?
hands hold a broken eucharist host
FaithFaith and Reason
Bill McCormick, S.J.
The Eucharist as the sacrament of unity constitutes the church not as just another social body, but as mystical and universal in its orientation toward the kingdom of God.