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FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
After Pope Francis met with Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See, the ambassador suggested that a papal visit to that war-torn country may happen in the near future.
FaithScripture Reflections
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
A Reflection for the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kaya Oakes
A Reflection for Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kaya Oakes
FaithScripture Reflections
Patrick Cullinan
A Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Patrick Cullinan
FaithFaith in Focus
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Members of the Society of Jesus have been called in recent years to see as mission territory not just our works out in the world, but the very communities in which we live.
Lingua Ignota performing live at Roadburn Festival in 2019 (Grywnn via Wikimedia Commons)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Erik VanBezooijen
“Sinner Get Ready" by Lingua Ignota is a powerful reminder that our willingness to speak about trauma and listen to those who are surviving is a measure of our willingness to experience the reality of God.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis received in a private audience this morning a top-ranking member of the Russian Orthodox Church, second only to patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A group of U.S. House representatives wrote to President Biden this week, urging his administration to work with the Mexican government in apprehending the murderer of Fathers Javier Campos and Joaquin Mora.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
August 14, 2022, the Twentienth Sunday in Ordinary Time:Embedded in these texts are nuggets of hope and suggestions for dealing with unsettling realities.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joshua Hren
David Foster Wallace's novella 'Something to Do With Paying Attention' features two conversion narratives, a "fearful Jesuit" and "the death of childhood's limitless possibility."
Arts & CulturePoetry
Jasmine Marshall Armstrong
Even the little dog's mad barks
Arts & CultureIdeas
Seth Meehan
Markus Friedrich is passionate about Jesuit history—how it is studied, how it should not be studied and about its larger importance today.
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy
Politics & SocietyNews
Tom Tracy
Proposed federal regulatory changes to the Affordable Care Act will mean “woke” political correctness will trump medical and ethical considerations, likely exacerbating a nursing and physician shortage in the U.S., claim some critics.
The pope, holding a microphone and smiling, receives questions from reporters on an airplane.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The pope shares St. Vincent of Lérins’s view on how doctrine can develop and how there can be growth in the expression and awareness of the faith and in morals “while always remaining faithful to its roots.”
FaithLast Take
Robert Ellsberg
Tom Cornell, who died on Aug. 1 at the age of 88, was truly one of the architects of the American Catholic peace movement.
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
Walking the walk has always been my metaphor of choice for growing closer to God, for following the path to a sturdier faith, for keeping my feet on holy ground. Who am I if I am unable to walk?
FaithInterviews
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
“Someone once said that tradition is the living memory of believers. Traditionalism instead is the dead life of our believers.”
Massimiliano Strappetti, right, follows Pope Francis as he meets young people and elders at Nakasuk Elementary School Square in Iqaluit, Canada, Friday, July 29, 2022. Francis has promoted the Vatican nurse whom he credited with saving his life to be his "personal health care assistant." The Vatican announced the appointment of Massimiliano Strappetti, currently the nursing coordinator of the Vatican's health department, in a one-line statement Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
FaithNews
The Associated Press
Pope Francis has promoted Vatican nurse Massimiliano Strappetti, whom he credited with saving his life last year, to be his “personal health care assistant.”
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
If you feel a longing for God, take heart. You are alert and ready to receive the bridegroom. If you were not, his absence would not burn.