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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.
Arts & CultureBooks
Robert Rubsam
Rooney’s novel ends up as an overlong interlude, poised between significant moments, not substantial enough to compose its own movement.
FaithNews
Thomas J. Reese
The second session of the Synod on Synodality will take place this October as a follow-up to the first session that occurred last October. Here are five things to look for as the synod delegates gather in Rome.
Politics & SocietyNews
OSV News
Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend the Al Smith charity dinner on Oct. 17.
FaithFaith and Reason
Bryan N. Massingale
The centennial of James Baldwin's birth is an invitation to join the ranks of “the relatively conscious” who will help the nation engage in the metanoia needed to become the country that Baldwin constantly believed and hoped it could become.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Connor Hartigan
Missouri plans to proceed with the lethal injection of Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24, despite doubts about his guilt and widespread backlash.
Pope Francis greets visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray the Angelus at the Vatican Sept. 22, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Francis, who will turn 88 on Dec. 17, has not rested one day since his return from the East on Friday, Sept. 13.
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Ahead of the 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Daniel Corrou, S.J., pastor of St. Joseph Church in Beirut, Lebanon, calls us to embrace “a story of love” rather than fear.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a talk to leaders of popular grassroots movements, Pope Francis said, “It is often precisely the wealthiest who oppose the realization of social justice or integral ecology out of sheer greed.”
FaithFaith in Focus
Tinamarie Stolz
Most of my most meaningful meals have been prepared by friends born outside of the United States and who made a courageous journey to be here.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
A public toilet cleaner who lives alone, Hirayama has discovered deep meaning and beauty in a life that others would demean or reject.
Arts & CultureBooks
James K. A. Smith
Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s life and loves.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
This week on a live recording of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Bishop Kevin Sweeney of Paterson, N.J., about his spiritual journey as a young priest on 9/11 and becoming a bishop during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J.D. Long García
I am ashamed to say it, but Trump’s claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets reminds me so much of the way Haitians are treated in my home country, the Dominican Republic.
Honduran environmental activist and lay Catholic leader Juan Antonio López was killed Sept. 14, 2024. (Video screen grab)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Juan López was gunned down as he was leaving Mass by a still unidentified assassin, becoming the latest casualty among defenders of creation and Indigenous and human rights in Honduras.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Melinda Ribnek
If we are to be truly pro-life, we must advocate for both with equal fervor.
Politics & SocietyNews
Ohio Catholic Conference
After former president Donald Trump amplified unsubstantiated claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, the state’s bishops called for solidarity with ‘our Haitian brothers and sisters.’
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Vatican has approved the promotion of devotion to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje but did not make any declaration on the alleged supernatural character of the Marian apparitions there.
FaithFaith in Focus
James Martin, S.J.
Father James Martin responds to the five most common reasons for opposing L.G.B.T.Q. issues that he’s heard from synod delegates and church leaders from around the world.
FaithScripture Reflections
Carl DeBarbrie
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, by Carl DeBarbrie