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Arts & CultureBooks
Tom Deignan
Faulkner’s Southern twist on Joycean modernism has made for popular reading in the wake of the U.S. Capitol insurrection and other spasms of red-state rage.
Arts & CultureBooks
Christiana Zenner
Katharine Hayhoe's new book is a conversational, first-person narrative that melds the social science around climate change attitudes and communication into a framework and set of stories that readers can access and relate to.
Arts & CultureBooks
Diane Scharper
Using present tense, omniscient point of view and a William Faulkner-like stream-of-consciousness, Damon Galgut takes readers into the heads of every character in his new novel.
Arts & CultureLast Take
Shannen Dee Williams
Writing the first full history of Black Catholic women religious in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams experienced the gamut of human emotions.
Arts & CultureBooks
Mike Mastromatteo
Does Christian literary expression hover as “something between a dead language and a hangover"? Have Catholic artists “ceded the arts to secular society"? In response to what might be considered a literary call to action comes a new book by Joshua Hren.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jon M. Sweeney
Forty years after its publication, Jon Sweeney revisits ‘Blue Highways’ and its iconoclastic author.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Matthew Porto
What man has made now makes him
Arts & CulturePoetry
Matthew Porto
Most of my kind, when they come, take pleasure in blinding you
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, saying: “The catechism is not set in stone. One may also question what it says.”
Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, speaks at a news conference on Jan. 29, 2018.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.
FaithLent Reflections
Rachel Lu
A Reflection for the Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Rachel Lu
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
We all live in the dark, in the dust. If we are going to assail evil where we find it, what of the evil we do not see in ourselves?
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“If Putin says something on Tuesday, the Russian Patriarch has to say the same thing on Wednesday but just putting the word ‘God’ into the sentence,” David Nazar, S.J., said in an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
“We need her,” Mary Novak, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, said at the rally about Judge Jackson. “Network’s got your back.”
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Charles C. Camosy
In recent years, a new kind of hostility has developed toward any hint of faith in the practice of health care. But the idea that health care must be a religion-free zone is absolutely bizarre.
Pope Francis meets young people from Ukraine during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 30, 2022.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
Even though old age can weaken the body, Pope Francis said, it can also sharpen a person’s connection to God.
FaithLent Reflections
Gloria Purvis
A Reflection of the Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Gloria Purvis
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Last week in Chicago, bishops from throughout the United States and a few from other parts of the world engaged in dialogue with theologians, scholars and journalists about the state of the church.
FaithSpeeches
James Martin, S.J.
James Martin, S.J., shares the lessons he learned as a young Jesuit about accompaniment.
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
The Gloria Purvis Podcast
In honor of Women’s History Month, “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” is exploring questions about what it means to be a woman, from a Catholic perspective.