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 ‌Photo of three sets of hands encircling four attached paper dolls, one of a father, one of a mother, and two of children. (iStock/Liudmila Chernetska)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathryn Jean Lopez
After Dobbs, the pro-life movement must take the lead in supporting foster and adoptive parents—and in letting birth mothers know there is no stigma in giving a child a new chance at life.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Georgetown University announced Monday that it has appointed Dr. Fauci the Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s department of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
 Father Whitfield preaching at a Mass in St. Rita Catholic Community, Dallas, Tex. (photo supplied)
FaithPodcasts
Preach
In this week's Preach, for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., speaks with Father Josh Whitfield, a formerly Episcopalian, now Catholic priest, husband and father of five, about preaching.
child standing in a white t-shirt looking out on a city
FaithScripture Reflections
Jill Rice
A Reflection for Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jill Rice
pope francis sits and talks to archbishop georg gaenswein the former secretary to benedict xvi
FaithNews
Simon Kajan — KNA
Speculation surrounding the return to Germany of Georg Gänswein is continuing unabated, not least because his status remains unclear now that he has been sent away from the Vatican.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Argentine bishops knew for certain as early as 1979 that it was the military junta’s official policy to “disappear” people in order to quash opposition. The Vatican urged the bishops’ conference to intervene using all possible means.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
At its heart, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” is a meditation on discovering—and pursuing—your vocation.
people carry a casket outside the womens prison in honduras
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - OSV News
Catholics in Honduras prayed for the victims of a horrific massacre in a women’s prison—an attack underscoring the power of the country’s criminal gangs and their control over correctional facilities.
A close-up of a young woman's hands holding a white rosary. (iStock/magnez2)
FaithShort Take
Adrienne Alexander
Church teachings on life beginning at conception and human dignity overall require us to have a more sensitive approach to miscarriages and other forms of pregnancy loss.
Arts & CultureBooks
Mike Mastromatteo
'People Get Ready' tells how an inner-city Boston parish managed to transform itself into a vibrant church community, an experience that Reynolds believes holds lessons for a new understanding of the role of the parish in Catholic ecclesiology.
The actor Mark Williams in a scene from the series Father Brown, wearing a traditional black cassock, saturno hat and glasses
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
Mark Williams has been playing Father Brown for 10 years, but “he never bores me,” he confides.
FaithNews Analysis
Colleen Dulle
Since February, Pope Francis has appointed four men under age 60 to lead major archdioceses around the world, in what have widely been viewed as efforts to shore up his legacy.
Man lying down in prayer
FaithScripture Reflections
Zac Davis
A Reflection for Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis
an infrared reflectogram of Albrecht Dürer's Salvator Mundi overlayed behind a burst of color
Arts & CulturePodcasts
Jesuitical
What the church teaches about drugs and intoxication? How should Christians respond to psychedelic drugs being used in therapeutic settings?
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
Colleen and Gerry unpack the Synod on Synodality's working document and the clues it provides about the synod’s first global meeting in October.
FaithFaith in Focus
Simcha Fisher
When will the day come when we won’t see a headline about the church reluctantly admitting that they have spent several decades protecting yet another predator and feeding yet more victims into the flames?
A stained glass window depicting a Black Catholic nun
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis has declared venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the first Catholic order of African American nuns, and Sister Lúcia dos Santos, one of the children who saw the Fátima vision.
Politics & SocietyExplainer
Michael J. O’Loughlin
With rapid advances in medicine and sweeping changes in the U.S. health care landscape, some are suggesting that the U.S. bishops’ Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services needs a complete overhaul.
FaithExplainer
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
There are deep questions that still need attention to understand how Father Rupnik’s abuses went unchecked for nearly three decades and to determine what further systemic reforms beyond his dismissal are necessary.
Pope Francis sits in the passenger seat of a silver car.
FaithNews
The Associated Press
Pope Francis says he's still feeling the effects of anesthesia from abdominal surgery two weeks ago and that his breathing ‘isn't good.’