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a static old television with antenna sits on a table with a doilie under it, a plaid wall is behind it. a very 1960s style image
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, by Terrance Klein
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
After a stint in rehab, a break up from his wife followed almost immediately by a new relationship and then a baby with the actress Olivia Munn, comedian John Mulaney is back with a new Netflix special, “Baby J.”
A man standing on top of a hill next to a herd of sheep
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
April 30, 2023, the Fourth Sunday of Easter: This passage is the result of multiple stages of editing as, over time, the fourth Gospel took its final form. Each of those stages reflects new pastoral concerns within the growing church. The resulting “shepherd” metaphor is therefore quite complex.
a nun in a blue habit shakes hands with pope francis
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis describes the witness to evangelization provided by monks and nuns, whose prayer sustains the mission of the Body of Christ.
Silhouette of man sitting on rock near water during sunset
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter, by Michael O’Loughlin
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
For the first time in the history of the synod, Pope Francis has given women the right to vote and has also made a radical change to the membership of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Shusaku Endo may not have liked the title “greatest Japanese Catholic novelist,” but his works—including ‘Silence’—are powerful meditations on the nature of belief and the vitality and viability of Christianity.
People with missing relatives and victims of violence walk in a procession in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico July 28, 2022, in memory of their loved ones as part of the Praying Days for Peace called by the Catholic Church due to the ongoing violence in Mexico. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Agren
Mexico’s military has been one of the most prolific users of Pegasus spyware since 2011, having “targeted more cell phones with spyware than any other government agency in the world.”
white and purple boxes of the drug mifepristone
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
In recent weeks, the battle over abortion focused on mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States and which can also be used following a miscarriage.
Community
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
America’s multi-platform media ministry ensures that the widest group possible can benefit from journalism that tells the stories of faith in action.
Arts & CultureVantage Point
Francis Mathy
A profile of Shusaku Endo from 1992, three years after America awarded the famous Japanese Catholic novelist the Campion Award.
Black cross statue on blue background
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mark, evangelist, by Tim Reidy
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
From the moment of her birth, my granddaughter has retaught me one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we learn at Confirmation: a sense of wonder and awe.
Three Catholic priests and a man in a suit pose for a photo
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves.”
A woman prays during an Easter Sunday Mass at Surp Giragos Armenian Catholic Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, April 9, 2023. (OSV News photo/Sertac Kayar, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Miriane Demers-Lemay
A tiny population of about 60,000 Armenian Christians remain in Turkey today. Most, uprooted from villages in eastern Anatolia, now live in neighborhoods in Istanbul.
Bible on brown table in greenery
FaithScripture Reflections
Simcha Fisher
A Reflection for Monday of the Third Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis wants to visit Argentina, his homeland, in 2024 and has told Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the private secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, that he has to leave his Vatican apartment in the coming months.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Jackson
A Reflection for Saturday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kevin Jackson
A scene from ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ (photo: Jeremy Daniel)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.
colorful icons of a hummingbird, monarch butteryfly and bee
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim McDermott
Artist Angela Manno creates Byzantine Russian-style icons of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. And they are really extraordinary.