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Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Notre Dame professor Robert Schmuhl said the Georgia indictment “reads like a who’s who of Trump loyalists—and lawyers—at the center of the alleged attempt to change the outcome of Georgia’s presidential vote count in 2020.”
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Over 27 years beginning in 1947, Moira Walsh wrote over 750 movie reviews for America—each one possessed of an invincible authorial voice and informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of film history.
Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, a Franciscan sister who some call the "Mother Teresa of the Honduras" is shown hugging a child in this image taken from the documentary "With This Light." (OSV News photo/courtesy Miraflores Films)
FaithInterviews
Ryan Di Corpo
“She was so inspiring, but she was also so human. She’d get herself in trouble, and she knew it,” co-director Nicole Bernardi-Reis said of Sister María Rosa Leggol in an interview with America.
Politics & SocietyInterviews
Charles C. Camosy
It may appear strange that a Catholic moral theologian (me) would interact with an atheist philosopher who has consistently rejected the sanctity of human life while demanding we respect the lives of nonhuman animals.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Feast of the Assumption, by Terrance Klein
Father James F. Keenan at his 80th birthday party (photo: Jesuits USA East)
FaithFaith in Focus
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
Jim remembered everyone—even my mother whom he had never met or spoken with. A special occasion would not go by without a phone call or a handwritten note from Jim.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“Praise increases joy. Praise is like a ladder: it leads hearts upward,” Pope Francis said. “Praise elevates souls and defeats the temptation to give up.”
FaithDispatches
J.D. Long García
Latino participation is important: Recent polling data suggests that more than half of U.S. Catholics under 30 are Latino. Overall, Latinos make up more than 40 percent of Catholics in the United States.
A young man in an orange prison uniform reads a book, while in the background another prisoner looks at a chessboard..
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Michael Hallett
A prison warden in Mississippi hired nearly a dozen released model inmates to work as chaplains, counselors and teachers. Other prisons can follow suit—and Christian ministries can help.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, by Michael Simone, S.J.
An aerial view shows the community of Lahaina after wildfires driven by high winds burned across most of the town several days ago, in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, U.S. August 10, 2023. (OSV News photo/Marco Garcia, Reuters)
FaithNews
Patrick Downes - Catholic News ServiceJulie Asher - Catholic News Service
The fate of Maria Lanakila Church was for several days the subject of rumor.
FaithFeatures
Kevin Clarke
Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?
open book on table
FaithScripture Reflections
Sebastian Gomes
A Reflection for Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Sebastian Gomes
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.
FaithShort Take
José Maria Brito
By revisiting the various moments of grace from World Youth Day, we might identify some ways we still need to walk together if we are to make effective the pope’s call for a church that is “for all.”
man holding chain link fence
FaithFaith in Focus
Paul Morrissey
The whole dynamic of hearing confessions in prison is incredible. I use this awesome role of confessor to encourage them to foster the spark of God’s love for them, not to waste it.
Logos of ATM services are displayed outside the Financial Centre LAFISE in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 7, 2017. Nicaragua has frozen the bank accounts of dioceses nationwide as the regime of President Daniel Ortega escalates its persecution of the Catholic Church with accusations of theft and money laundering. (OSV News photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
FaithNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Nicaragua appears to have frozen the bank accounts of the country's Jesuit university, marking yet another attack on the Catholic Church.
Brie Larson and Lakeith Stanfield in ‘Short Term 12’ (photo: Demarest Films).  
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ This film provides one answer.
Pope Francis listens to World Youth Day volunteers share their reflections at a concert venue in Algés, Portugal, Aug. 6, 2023.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
On this special summer episode of “Inside the Vatican,” America editors Ricardo da Silva, S.J. and Gerard O’Connell recap World Youth Day.
woman praying
FaithScripture Reflections
Samantha Richardson
A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Samantha Richardson