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FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The prime minister’s speech at the start of Pope Francis’ visit was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip and underscored just how raw the abuse scandal still is in Belgium.
FaithFaith in Focus
Bill Creed, S.J.
The power of the Ignatian Spirituality Project is in recognizing the beauty and dignity of the one person in front of us.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Apple TV+’s ’Slow Horses‘ plays a bit like John le Carré with more firepower. And efficiency.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
During a brief visit to Luxembourg, Pope Francis recalled the nation's painful history and lauded its welcome to immigrants, encouraging its people "to be faithful to this legacy."
FaithFaith and Reason
Michael J. Naughton
The intellectual content at Catholic schools cannot just be "Catholic frosting on a secular cake," but should instead be like yeast, infusing every aspect of education.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Connor Hartigan
Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love and Dr. Richard Love explore the legal and ethical issues behind the recent pager explosions in Lebanon.
FaithNews
Claire Giangravé - Religion News Service
In a new book, Cardinal Marc Ouellet challenges the church to worry less about creating something new, and more about treasuring what is already there.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
The Vatican officially recognized Medjugorje as a place of pilgrimage and popular piety, stopping short of confirming the supernatural origin of the apparitions.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is expected to speak about war and peace, the migrant crisis, ecology, secularization and the sexual abuse of minors by clergy.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
How should we treat those whose beliefs and actions vex us?
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
September 29, 2024, the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: If good is being done in faith, then this becomes the critical measure to celebrate God’s power at work within the community of believers.
Pope Francis waves to young people gathered for a meeting on interreligious dialogue at the Catholic Junior College in Singapore on Sept. 13, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithShort Take
Nathan Beacom
A snippet from some impromptu remarks caused a stir, but the pope’s point was that all religions are ways of communicating with God, not that they are all “the same.”
A wounded girl lies in a hospital bed in the southern village of Saksakieh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Father Dan Corrou says all Jesuit Refugee Service operations have been suspended. Many of the agency’s employees, like thousands of other residents of southern Lebanon, are fleeing toward Beirut or making plans to.
FaithScripture Reflections
Molly Cahill
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill
Father Emmanuel Mosoew, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate, distributes ashes to a religious sister at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Johannesburg during Mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Father Mosoew is a theology professor at St. Augustine University in Johannesburg. (OSV News photo/Sam Lucero)
FaithDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
“If women are doing practically everything that a deacon is doing ... [why] do we want to draw women into clericalism when we are having so many problems with it?”
Politics & SocietyNews
OSV News
Cardinal Dolan of New York still held out hope that the Democratic nominee could change her plans and join the event which her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, is now planning to attend.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
A number of states will vote on expanding or maintaining access to abortion this November, but voters in Arizona will also weigh in on a ballot initiative restricting immigration.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Thomas Pynchon is best-known as the reclusive author of some of our most famous postmodern novels. But is he also a discerning judge of our spiritual health?
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis, who has called for the liberation of Aung San Suu Kyi, the former leader of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, told Jesuits in Asia that he even had offered to give her refuge at the Vatican.
FaithNews
Simon Caldwell - OSV News
A relic of Blessed Acutis was taken to Manchester for veneration, drawing 5,000 pilgrims in four days of prayer and an all-night vigil.