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FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Michael R. Simone, S.J.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Joe Hoover, S.J.
The poetry of Amit Majmudar, whom America has published 10 times in the past few years, moves easily between the mystical and the ordinary, the one rooted in the other.
Election violence in 2018: Soldiers beat a female supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party of Nelson Chamisa outside the party's headquarters as they await the results of the general elections in August 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (CNS photo/Mike Hutchings, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Marko Phiri
Zimbabwe bishops condemned “heinous violent crimes” after videos circulated of opposition political supporters being attacked by suspected supporters of the ruling Zimababwe African National Union Patriotic Front.
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Arts & CultureIdeas
Joe Hoover, S.J.
The best “time maximizing” methods can lead us to a space where God can maximize our souls and inhabit everything we do.
Latino Catholics in black and white shirts hold hands while reciting the Lord's Prayer during Mass inside a church under a circular stained glass window.
FaithNews
Maria-Pia Negro Chin, OSV News
Despite the 24% decline over the last decade, Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, the Pew report said.
Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at V. H. Lassen Academy of Science and Nutrition in Phoenix on Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Mariani)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Dwayne David Paul
Catholics should support universal free school meals both because it aids the poor and because it promotes the common good.
father hans zollner prays with head bowed in his clerics with a gold cloth-covered wall behind him; the purple caps of bishops or cardinals are blurred in front of him in the foreground
Politics & SocietyNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Father Hans Zollner clarified that his resignation was not intended to personally attack anyone or impede the work of the commission, which he called “a success in itself and a great idea by Pope Francis.”
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FaithScripture Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Valerie Schultz
theodore mccarrick in a file photo wears his collar and looks off to the side
Politics & SocietyNews
Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press
A criminal complaint filed on Friday alleges that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually assaulted a Wisconsin man in 1977, when the alleged victim was 18 years old.
Picture of a sea of text merging in a blank screen held by a robot hand
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
You need not worry that I will be outsourcing “Of Many Things” columns to our robot overlords in the future.
Catholic Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong in a red chasuble and white mitre wears a surgical mask.
FaithNews
Kanis Leung - Associated Press
Hong Kong's Roman Catholic bishop arrived in Beijing on Monday, marking the first visit to the Chinese capital by the city's bishop in nearly three decades, despite signs of Sino-Vatican strains.
parting clouds
FaithScripture Reflections
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
A Reflection for the Monday of the Second Week of Easter, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
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Politics & SocietyFaith and Reason
Michael BurnsJoseph Vukov
New forms of A.I. raise pressing ethical and philosophical questions that must be addressed by Catholics and, for that matter, all people of good will.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a Sunday audience with pilgrims, Pope Francis denounced the “offensive and baseless allegations” made against St. John Paul II by Pietro Orlandi, the brother of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-old “Vatican girl” who disappeared on June 22, 1983.
FaithScripture Reflections
Molly Cahill
A Reflection for Saturday in the Octave of Easter, by Molly Cahill
seven young people sit around in chairs talking to each other in a courtyard area inside a building
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
With church leaders slated to meet in October for the next phase of the Synod on Synodality, the bishops conferences of the U.S. and Canada released a report summarizing the virtual meetings conducted with lay and ordained Catholics earlier this year.
FaithShort Take
James T. Keane
When J.F.K. visited Ireland in 1963, both Ireland and Irish-Americans celebrated the occasion. The visit of President Joe Biden this week inspired similar feelings—but in a situation far different.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
China has breached its long-fought-for agreement with the Vatican on the appointment of bishops.
Phillipa Soo (center) and company in Lincoln Center Theater's production of CAMELOT.
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Three strong new revivals offer an instructive comparative lens through which to view the form’s development over the decades. 
Arts & CultureFilm
Jim McDermott
The conversation of “The Pope: Answers” offers a provocative image of what church could be.