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A woman prays during Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City May 15, 2023.
FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The share of Catholics going to Mass even a few times each year has fallen off significantly compared with the number before the Covid pandemic, but U.S. Catholics overall are largely optimistic about their church and its leaders, a new survey finds.
Wide shot on a cloudy day of the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, with people walking outside on the sidewalk.
FaithNews
Jonathan Luxmoore - OSV News
“It’s a fact that church attendance has strongly (been) reduced, with a significant and steady decline in priestly vocations and church membership, and an increasing loss of financial income.”
FaithNews
The Associated Press
The district court in Munich handed down its verdict in the case of the Rev. Joerg Alt after he participated in a road blockade in the Bavarian capital on Oct. 28.
barred window
FaithScripture Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Valerie Schultz
Man holding luggage
FaithScripture Reflections
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
A reflection for Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
bishop strickland wears his clerics while greeting pope francis whose back is turned to the camera. bishop strickland is a 64 year old average sized white man with graying hair
FaithNews
OSV News
Bishop Strickland wrote that he believes Pope Francis is the pope, but he "reject(s) his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith."
FaithShort Take
Jim McDermott
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
Justice Hardy, a writer on the television series "True Lies," holds up a sign as members of The Writers Guild of America picket outside Warner Bros. Studios, on May 2, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The use of ChatGPT is as controversial in the entertainment industry as it is in schools. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
LuElla D'Amico
Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.
FaithScripture Reflections
Jailynn Castro
A Reflection for Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter, by Jailynn Castro
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis emphasized in particular “the urgent need for ‘gestures of humanity’ towards the most fragile persons, the innocent victims of the conflict.”
pope francis at right shakes the hand of giorgia meloni at left, both are wearing white clothes in front of a dark background
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Pope Francis joined Giorgia Meloni in encouraging young Italians to have more children, saying, “Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism.”
a photo of the new barbie with down syndrome and a photo of the author smiling next to her 13-year-old daughter who has down syndrome and her sister, who is in her 40s, who also has down syndrome
FaithFaith in Focus
Elizabeth Newton
My sister, who has Down syndrome, never had dolls that looked like her growing up. Today, my kids can play with a Barbie who has Down syndrome, which allows all children to welcome people with disabilities.
Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key in "Schmigadoon!" (photo: AppleTV) 
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
“Schmigadoon!” is not about recreating the forms of old musicals, it’s about what happens when we give ourselves over to musical theater.
FaithFaith and Reason
Carolyn Weir Herman
The Synod on Synodality is good news for all the baptized, and in particular, it is good news for women.
a statue of mary with baby jesus in front of a blue background
FaithFaith in Focus
Colleen Dulle
My relationship with Mary is complicated. I couldn't see the appeal of Marian devotion until I had a baby and understood how she embodies the life-giving sacrifice of motherhood.
Elle Fanning as Catherine in Hulu’s ‘The Great’ (photo: Hulu)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Christopher Parker
For me, the plot events ahead are secondary to the show’s real strength, the paths that the characters themselves will take.
Arts & CulturePodcasts
Jesuitical
A discussion about the documentary “Join or Die,” “a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it.“
A pedestrian passes before campaign billboards of Turkish President and People's Alliance's presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and CHP party leader and Nation Alliance's presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Istanbul on May 5. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Miriane Demers-Lemay
Election results could indicate the populist Islamism promoted by President Erdogan may be losing its appeal.
a duck glides in water between the reflection of trees and the reflection of the sky
FaithScripture Reflections
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
From the very beginning, the church reaches decisions that are complicated, human, messy, often ad hoc—this is what the Holy Spirit protecting and guiding the church looks like.
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.