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FaithVantage Point
Avery Dulles
After the death of Henri de Lubac, S.J., on Sept. 4, 1991, Avery Dulles, S.J. penned a long tribute to the theologian, a major influence on Vatican II and later theological developments.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Henri de Lubac, S.J., had a long career filled with many twists and turns—but he is recognized today as one of the giants of 20th-century Catholic theology.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
On Easter Monday, Pope Francis marked the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which, he said, “put an end to the violence that had troubled Northern Ireland for decades.”
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
If “Succession” ends as a sort of Shakespearean tragedy, as all signs thus far have suggested that it will, this week’s episode may well be the moment we look back on as that tragedy’s core.
Yellow daffodil flowers in bloom in spring
FaithScripture Reflections
Molly Cahill
A Reflection for Monday in the Octave of Easter, by Molly Cahill
archbishop broglio celebrates mass wearing purple on ash wednesday with two other priests next to him, they are at the altar
FaithNews
Gina Christian - OSV News
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center abruptly ended a long-standing contract with a community of Franciscan priests before Holy Week began, a move Archbishop Timothy Broglio called "incomprehensible."
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
He asked Christ to help the international community “to make haste to surmount our conflicts and divisions, to open our hearts to those in greatest need” and “to pursue paths of peace and fraternity.”
FaithPope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
This is what the Pasch of the Lord accomplishes: it motivates us to move forward, to leave behind our sense of defeat, to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope, and to look with confidence to the future.
Jesus depicted in stained glass
FaithScripture Reflections
James Martin, S.J.
A Reflection for the Resurrection of the Lord, by James Martin, S.J.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
"As believers, it is our duty to show what there is behind or underneath" proclamations of relativism and nihilism, that is, to show the truth and new life brought by Christ's resurrection, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said in his homily on April 7 in St. Peter's Basilica.
Pope Francis in a wheelchair after the chrism Mass
FaithNews
Associated Press
Instead of presiding over the torch-led procession at the Colosseum, Francis will watch from the hotel where he lives in the Vatican.
Catholic Church interior
FaithScripture Reflections
James T. Keane
A Reflection for Holy Saturday, At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter, by James T. Keane
Cross with blue background.
FaithScripture Reflections
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
A Reflection for Good Friday, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Arts & CultureTheater
Jim McDermott
In these Lenten and Easter days in which the church celebrates a man whose divinity was revealed in his willingness to sacrifice everything for love, consider "Sweeney Todd" to be that story’s dark, demonic twin.
FaithNews
Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press
In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them “any of us” can fall into sin.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss how the pope bounced back from bronchitis.
jesus is surrounded by his disciples at a table in a 14th-century depiction of the Last Supper
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
If irony is the opposite of what one might expect, then nothing is more ironic than God.
the iesus christus rex iudaeorum atop the crucifix in diego velazquez painting of jesus on the ross
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for Good Friday, by Terrance Klein
A young woman weeps against an ambulance as a loved one is treated by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Ciudad Juárez on Monday, March, 27, 2023. (Omar Ornelas/The El Paso Times via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
On March 27, 40 men died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The appalling loss of life has many more authors than the people likely to be punished for it.
The Notre Dame Folk Choir
Arts & CultureFaith in Focus
Anna Staud
The Notre Dame Folk Choir was like a family I did not want to leave behind.