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FaithShort Take
Thomas J. Reese
Pope Francis preaches about synodality, but the canon lawyers are showing us how to make it more than a pious wish that can be ignored by pastors and bishops who prefer to stick to the old ways.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Terrance Klein
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The Editors: “Rather than a claim to know conscience’s demands for everyone, it is a challenge for voters to engage in deeper reflection, prayer and dialogue.”
FaithSynod Diary
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Steps from the Vatican, LGBT Catholics from around the world gathered to answer the question: What do you want synod delegates to know about your experience as an LGBT Catholic?
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
October 13, 2024, the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: A common theme in Scripture is the promise that all things will eventually come to light. What is misunderstood today will be revealed with time.
Illustration of a hand dropping a ballot into a box that has flames inside.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Bonnette
Undermining the fabric of shared reality is one of the most brutal and insidious tactics of authoritarian regimes. Christians have a moral responsibility to stand against lies.
Young Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in the northern Gaza Strip Sept. 11, 2024. (OSV News photo/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Most families have been forced to move many times and with each new displacement, families lose or abandon more belongings. Not many of them by now have clothing appropriate for worsening weather conditions.
Politics & SocietyNews
Paulina Guzik - OSV News
As the Holy Land marked a grim first anniversary Oct. 7 of the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the papal almoner raised $35,000 in one afternoon from synod delegates and immediately sent it to Holy Family Parish in Gaza City.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11.
FaithScripture Reflections
Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Noah Banasiewicz, S.J.
FaithScripture Reflections
Sebastian Gomes
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Sebastian Gomes
FaithScripture Reflections
Molly Cahill
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill
FaithSynod Diary
Sebastian Gomes
At this stage of the discernment, we might ponder if the categorization of women deacons as a “Western obsession” has itself in some ways become a Western obsession.
Members of the Jewish community gather at a park in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 7, as mourners marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Sam Kastel
Israel was forced into this impossible situation by those who planned and executed Oct. 7. Yet we have been confronted with denials, justifications and even glorifications of the Hamas attack.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, a literary wunderkind and the lyricist behind many songs made famous by more prominent voices. Kristofferson was also—hear me out on this—a man for whom religious faith was an important part of his life.
A child looks at the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in a tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, on Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, file)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Ken Butigan
A delegation organized by the American group Christians for Ceasefire visits Palestine and experiences a weeklong training session in nonviolent resistance.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
What real changes can we expect from the Synod on Synodality? How is the Vatican responding to the rapidly expanding war in the Middle East? And who is rumored to succeed Pope Francis? Colleen Dulle and Gerard O'Connell tackle your burning questions in a special mailbag episode of “Inside the Vatican.”
Politics & SocietyFeatures
John W. Miller
With Pennsylvania widely considered the most crucial of the seven 2024 swing states and America feeling stuck in a winter of discord haunted by the specter of political violence, I decided to report on the election from Punxsutawney.
FaithNews
Thomas J. Reese
Francis has revolutionized the College of Cardinals by passing over large archdioceses like Los Angeles, Venice and Milan in favor of picking men from the peripheries who reflect his pastoral orientation and concern for the poor. 
FaithScripture Reflections
Eric Gregory
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Eric Gregory