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Spanish Legionnaires carry a large image of the crucified Christ in the rain April 18, 2019, outside a church in Málaga, Spain, during a Holy Week ceremony. (CNS photo/Jon Nazca, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Bridget Ryder
Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist attraction, demonstrating the complex reality of their fame.
FaithScripture Reflections
Zac Davis
A Reflection for Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter, by Zac Davis
FaithDispatches
Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
Beyond a simple affirmation of the pope’s authority, the letter by Arturo Sosa, S.J., called attention to its particular place of importance in the life of the Jesuits.
A destroyed St. Matthew Church is seen June 27, 2022, in the village of Daw Ngay Ku, Myanmar, in eastern Kayah state. Myanmar’s military junta was accused of blowing up the Catholic church with landmines and torching it. A more recent church attack blamed on the junta was the burning down of St. Patrick Cathedral in strife-torn northern Kachin state on March 16, 2025, the eve of the revered saint's feast. (OSV News photo/courtesy Amnesty International)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
“I’m glad that there are people still coming through,” Zomi leader Francis Kham says, but refugee resettlement “should be extended to everyone that’s really [facing] the same discrimination.”
Community
America Staff
Tuesday, May 20th at 5:30pm ET: Featuring Sam Sawyer, S.J., James Martin, S.J., Colleen Dulle and Sebastian Gomes.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May 18.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
While Pope Leo XIV has deleted the account he began as Father Robert F. Prevost on Twitter, now X, in 2011, the Vatican has launched new accounts for him on X and Instagram.
Pope Leo XIV arrives for an audience with the Vatican diplomatic corps in the Apostolic Palace's Clemetine Hall at the Vatican May 16, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Leo XIV told the ambassadors that as pope he intended “to strengthen understanding and dialogue” with their respective countries.
Paul Gross and George Clooney in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’
Arts & Culture
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Fan service isn’t just for Marvel movies. It’s alive and well in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow.’
Anthony Quinn and Leo McKern in ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’ (MGM)
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Tim Reidy
FaithScripture Reflections
Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
A Reflection for Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
FaithFeatures
J.D. Long García
And how the church can accompany couples struggling with infertility
Kelly Reilly and Brendan Gleeson in the movie ‘Calvary.’ (CNS photo/20th Century Fox)
Arts & CultureFilm
Jake Martin
Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Aileen Cassinetto
Like little sunsets, like a song of ascents, I wish to remember my father.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Grace LenahanJoe Hoover, S.J.James Davis May
These are poems that grip your heart, stretch your mind and startle your soul awake.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joseph P. Creamer
In 'Liberalism as a Way of Life,' Alexandre Lefebvre argues that for secular people, liberalism, if practiced intentionally, can be the grace they are seeking in their ordinary lives.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kristy Savage
in 'Finding God Along the Way,' Christine Marie Eberle masterfully weaves together Scripture, poetry and Ignatian spirituality.
Arts & CultureBooks
In 'Cultural Catholics,' Maureen K. Day works to answer the question of who “cultural Catholics” really are—and how to connect with them.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jenny Shank
Jared Lemus’s robust, melancholy debut short story collection 'Guatemalan Rhapsody' gives us characters who strive for love, respect or mere survival in tales that unfold in Guatemalan towns or among immigrant communities in the United States.