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a woman looks at a wall with face masks hanging on it
FaithFaith in Focus
America Staff
Four editors on the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic, and to consider what lessons we might take with us into the future.
FaithFaith in Focus
Molly Cahill
One day, Covid-19 will be a story, one that we package and deliver to people who never lived through it.
FaithFaith in Focus
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Writing this marginally insane diary was a reminder to me that, no matter what disasters strike us, and no matter what destruction they wreak, we can at least find ways to diminish their soul-destroying power. We can at least laugh.
health care workers clapping outside a hospital wearing masks during covid, there is a sign behind them denoting them as heroes
FaithFaith in Focus
Kerry Weber
Can something really be over if you can still feel it in your bones?
a crayon drawing with covid 19 and a map on it
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim McDermott
What will we hold onto from the pandemic? Perhaps the videos we watched and experiences we had, mostly virtual, in connecting with other people.
pope francis sits across from president volodymyr zelensky in the vatican
Politics & SocietyNews
Gerard O’Connell
President Zelensky could visit Pope Francis in his possible trip to Rome this weekend, which would be an extraordinary and highly significant development.
a map of the united states showing the four routes of the pilgrimage for the national eucharistic pilgrimage for 2024
FaithNews
Maria Wiering - OSV News
The 2024 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage goes across the country to converge in Indianapolis before the Eucharistic Congress opens in July 2024.
Migrants wade across a river during as they trek across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama, in hopes of reaching the U.S., Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire Thursday, May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sister Norma Pimentel has devoted years to protecting life at the border as migrant flows rise and fall. Growing anxiety over the lifting of Title 42 controls at the border has been a recent distraction from her ministry.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
In this episode of "Inside the Vatican," Gerry reports on the secret “mission” Pope Francis says he has undertaken to end the war in Ukraine.
FaithScripture Reflections
Jim McDermott
A Reflection for Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter, by Jim McDermott, S.J.
Roman Catholic and Coptic Orthodox priests stand on a stage
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis announced the inscription of the 21 workers, most of them Egyptians, in the Roman Martyrology, the compendium of saints celebrated liturgically in the Catholic Church.
a virginia opossum sits on some rocks
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, by Terrance Klein. Like a possum playing dead, the Holy Spirit might not reveal his work in life until after the action has already taken place.
FaithShort Take
Jim McDermott
I’m surprised to find that it’s my confusion about the synodal process that has grown more than my enthusiasm for what is being discussed.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O'Connell explains what we know about Pope Francis' secret peace "mission" to end the war in Ukraine.
two hands outstretched in prayer
FaithThe Word
May 14, 2023, the Sixth Sunday of Easter: The fourth Gospel leans into the personal affection between God and the individual.
pope francis stands next to coptic orthodox pope tawadros ii, they stand in front of a bunch of men in priestly clothing
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
Pope Francis greets Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the meeting of St. Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III.
FaithScripture Reflections
Joe Hoover, S.J.
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
Several Jesuits, dressed in black cassocks, sit across from Pope Francis, who is on the right side of the frame, at the apostolic nunciature in Hungary.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Allegations periodically have surfaced that then-Father Bergoglio either failed to protect Fathers Jálics and Yorio or even that he facilitated their kidnapping.
aloysius john wears a suit in front of a dark wall and speaks into a microphone. he is a french man of indian descent
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican’s main charitable organization, Caritas Internationalis, is hoping to open a new chapter this week, but the recently ousted head is fighting back, claiming the Vatican engaged in a “brutal power grab” fueled by a “colonialist” attitude.
six sisters of charity stand in a chapel with the altar behind them, they are women in their 70s and wear regular clothes, not habits
FaithNews
Luis Andres Henao - Associated Press
The Sisters of Charity of New York is on a path to completion after numbers have dwindled in recent years. But the sisters are facing trying times with joy.