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FaithScripture Reflections
Molly Cahill
A Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Jackson
A Reflection for Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Jackson
Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in 'Ms. Marvel’ (photo courtesy of Marvel Studios)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
When it came to bringing Kamala Khan to the screen, Marvel has made all the right choices.
A basketball court in a concrete yard, surrounding by a prison building
Politics & SocietyNews
Scott Bauer - Associated Press
A Wisconsin judge ruled against the state prison system on Thursday, saying its Covid-19 visitor policy that barred Catholic clergy from meeting with inmates for more than a year violated religious freedom.
FaithShort Take
Patrick Cullinan
It is my hope that the bishops’ campaign inspires not just an intellectual conversion but a religious conversion, propelling American Catholics to fight for a more just economy and a more Christian society.
Father Stephen Saffron elevates the Eucharist during a Tridentine Mass at St. Josaphat Church in Queens, New York City, on July 18, 2021. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithShort Take
Elisha Valladares-Cormier
Suppressing all elements of the Latin Mass would alienate Catholics who desire the reformed liturgy but also seek the rich liturgical elements of the centuries-old Tridentine celebration.
FaithScripture Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
The pope shakes hands with a priest. Behind the priest, others wait in line.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
In an address to members of three religious orders, the pope asked for "zero tolerance" for abusers in the church and expressed his "closeness" with the people of Ukraine.
The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula are seen in an image released by NASA released July 12, 2022. The "cliffs" are divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. The image is from data provided by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many size
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
“This is God’s creation being revealed to us, and in it we can see both his astonishing power and his love of beauty,” Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, the director of the Vatican Observatory, said.
Hundreds attend a funeral Mass in the the parish hall of St. Francis Xavier Church in Owo, Nigeria, June 17, 2022. The Mass was for at least 50 victims killed in a June 5 attack by gunmen during Mass at the church. (CNS photo/Temilade Adelaja, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Patrick EgwuEkpali Saint
The killing of Deborah Yakubu for alleged blasphemy and the reaction to it offer a stark depiction of the volatile divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim and Christian communities.
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim McDermott
We will all be a lot better off when fewer distinctions are made between us clergy and everyone else.
All that remains of St. Colman Church in Dillon, W.Va., on Irish Mountain in Raleigh County, is seen June 27, 2022, after it was found burned to the ground June 26. (CNS photo/courtesy Beaver Volunteer Fire)
FaithNews
Colleen Rowan - Catholic News Service
More than two weeks after a 145-year-old Catholic church was destroyed by fire, law enforcement officials announced that two suspects were arrested and charged with felonies for a blaze officials confirmed was arson.
FaithScripture Reflections
Patrick Cullinan
A Reflection for Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time by Patrick Cullinan
Arts & CultureIdeas
Jim McDermott
I usually love a good space story. But the more accolades I read about the new Webb Telescope image, the more I wondered if there was some other photo I hadn’t seen—because the one I kept seeing looked, well, like a blurry photo of stars.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Stephen McNulty
I spent an evening running the word "Catholicism" through the 20+ filters of a popular AI image generator. The results were both stunning and revelatory.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
So often what we consider to be interruptions can become invitations. We only need to ask, “What is it that you are saying, dear Lord?”
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Magazine
America Staff
America Media received 55 awards from the Catholic Media Association on July 7 for its groundbreaking coverage of events at the intersection of the church and world across print, digital, audio and video.
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Continuing with determination to open up new positions of responsibility for women in the Roman Curia, Pope Francis has appointed three women as members of the Dicastery for Bishops.
FaithScripture Reflections
Stephen McNulty
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Stephen McNulty
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.