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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
Few expected that the waters off Ireland’s southwestern coast would become a potential front in a confrontation with the Russian Federation. But that is exactly what happened at the end of January.
Father Stephen Saffron, parish administrator, elevates the Eucharist during a Tridentine Mass at St. Josaphat Church in the Queens borough of New York City.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Pope Francis has confirmed that members of the Fraternity of St. Peter may continue to celebrate the Mass, sacraments and Liturgy of the Hours using the pre-Vatican II texts and forms, the fraternity said.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Feb. 27, the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Today’s Gospel reminds us of the need to acknowledge failures and ask for forgiveness.
FaithFaith in Focus
Torey Lightcap
My formal, reserved church could take a cue from those who pray with raw urgency.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
Gracie Morbitzer has created over 100 icons of saints that reflect the modern church: They are young, diverse, sometimes tattooed—and no less holy because of it.
Staff and volunteers join a family arriving from Afghanistan at the Holy Cross Retreat Center in Las Cruces, N.M. (Photo courtesy of Holy Cross Retreat Center)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
“Pope Francis has said to reach out to the margins and help those who are in need, the refugees, the displaced. And we have a retreat center that has lots of space.”
Nabila Rasoul and her newborn daughter, Diyana, are seen in this undated photo.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kimberly Bender - Catholic News ServiceLiz Chandler – Catholic News Service
A retired nurse who felt called to help Afghan refugees and the young Afghan mother she embraced as a mentor were killed in a truck accident while out taking a walk Feb. 15.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J.
A documentary about a Black music festival awakens us to God's presence even amid our historical sins.
FaithFaith in Focus
Simcha Fisher
I have more or less settled on the idea that we’re meant to speak to God in our native tongues, and if that means humor, then that’s legitimate. But it’s important for there to be a line.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Stephen G. Adubato
The singer’s pain was rooted in a keen awareness of her heart’s yearning for love and meaning.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jenny Shank
In 'Monster in the Middle,' Tiphanie Yanique shows how the choice to love is always a leap of faith, a heedless plunge into the unknown.
Arts & CultureBooks
Patricia Lawler Kenet
The tale of a medieval woman’s decision to join the convent, Marj Charlier’s historical novel, 'The Rebel Nun,' resonates with many of the issues faced by the church in modern times.
A statue of Charles Darwin at his former school, which is now Shrewsbury Library in the United Kingdom (iStock)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Christopher Sandford
Charles Darwin’s teaching has been misappropriated by generations of intellectually dubious adherents.
Stock photo of an empty prison cell with the door slightly open.
FaithFeatures
Lyle C. May
“I returned to my Catholic upbringing, professing a faith I did not completely feel, because I was suffering and needed answers from God,” writes Lyle C. May, who is on death row in North Carolina.
People cross London’s Westminster Bridge as the Houses of Parliament are pictured silhouetted at sunset Dec. 4, 2020.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
The Palace of Westminster’s architecture and design are not proposing a new religion or alternative deity. Rather, they reflect a pre-existing reality, specifically, a Christian imagination.
Third graders enjoy an outdoor physical education class at Tomsk Catholic School in Siberia. The school educates students from kindergarten through 11th grade (photo: Janez Sever, S.J.).
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Thomas M. Simisky
My new motto has become, “Preach the Exercises always; when necessary, use words.”
Volunteers at a food bank prepare groceries for distribution. (Photo by Ismael Paramo on Unsplash)
FaithFaith and Reason
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Christians today are split between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to re-invigorating our sense of the common good.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Eve Tushnet
We need a new image of what it means to be a good neighbor.
A limited number of faithful attend an Easter Mass in the San Lorenzo in Lucina church in Rome, April 4, 2021.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
As the world begins to emerge from the most recent surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, how do we return to normal? And what should normal mean?
Flat illustration of people talking together with colorful speech bubbles above their heads.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Readers respond to the February 2022 editorial about how the listening phase of the 2023 Synod of Bishops should listen to the views of Catholics who have left the church.