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Politics & SocietyFeatures
Rachel Lu
The recent leak to Politico of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito suggests that the Supreme Court will soon strike down Roe v. Wade. We must consider the road ahead.
Deirdre McQuade, former director of planning and information for the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an undated photo.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Longtime pro-life advocate Deirdre McQuade died April 21 after a bout with metastatic breast cancer. She was 53.
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
The Gloria Purvis Podcast
Do vulnerable women, especially poor women of color, have the same choices available to them when determining their future and that of their unborn children?
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is willing to help negotiate an end to the Russian war against Ukraine, but warned that religious leaders “are not clerics of the state.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The Supreme Court appears set to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion for nearly 50 years, according to a leaked initial draft of a court opinion obtained by Politico and published online the evening of May 2.
Kane Tanaka, then 116 years old, at a nursing home in Fukuoka, Japan, on March 9, 2019. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John W. Miller
“Please cherish the elderly,” Pope Francis says. “Because they are the presence of history.” Kane Tanaka, who died in April at the age of 119, is an example of what Francis is talking about.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Sherman - Associated Press
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
May 8, 2022, the Fourth Sunday of Easter: The metaphor of Jesus as shepherd and his followers as sheep also offers a framework for their relationship.
This 1898 photo provided by the Sisters of the Holy Family (SSF) shows members of the religious order of African-American nuns in New Orleans.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Crary - Associated Press
After 14 years of tenacious research, Shannen Dee Williams arguably now knows more about America’s Black nuns than anyone in the world.
FaithDispatches
J.D. Long García
The mission to reach the marginalized L.G.B.T. community led Father James Martin and his collaborators to launch a new website, outreach.faith, on May 1.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
As the Russian attack on Ukraine entered its 67th day, Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to pray the rosary every day during the month of May for peace.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Why did Church Militant use Marjorie Taylor Greene to attack the U.S. church?
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory wore a white hard hat instead of a bishop’s miter as he processed to the altar for the second annual Building Trades’ Workers Memorial Day Mass.
Pope Francis greets a child during an audience with people who have autism at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Matthew P. Schneider, L.C.
A new study suggests that M.R.I. brain scans on fetuses are able to predict diagnoses of autism. Both disability rights and pro-life activists should be concerned about the implications.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
This week on ’Jesuitical,’ Ashley and Zac talk to Bishop Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee about praying in public, talking to friends (and strangers) about Jesus and what makes evangelization different from proselytizing.
A priest lifts up the consecrated host during Mass.
FaithFaith in Focus
Joe Hoover, S.J.
The great Catholic irony is that the Mass—that ripe cadenced insane activity at the heart of the church—is weirdly, bizarrely, the right and fitting place to bring our concerns about the Mass itself.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis asked his safeguarding commission to provide an annual audit of what the church is doing to protect minors and what needs to change.
FaithLast Take
The Most Rev. William A. Wack, C.S.C.
The harsh reality is that if Catholics were graded on our faithfulness to the Great Commission, we might not even get an “A” for effort.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
With "Suffs" and "Paradise Square," Broadway offers two new musicals that address the great animating subject of the American musical: America itself.
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Claire Giangravé - Religion News Service
Cardinal George Pell praised Pope Francis’ reforms to improve transparency in the institution while addressing questions raised by recent financial scandals in the Catholic Church.