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FaithInterviews
Gerard O’Connell
‘Amoris Laetitia’ is more than a theology for marriage and family life.
Dora Flores and her grandson arrive at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022, with flowers the day after a mass shooting. (CNS photo/Marco Bello, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Catholic Charities has established a command post of sorts at Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde, offering emotional and spiritual support to anyone able to receive it.
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
Jesuitical
We’ve been here before. This happens all the time in America. And it feels like we have the same reactions, the same conversations, read the same tweets.
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Arts & CultureFilm
Jim McDermott
I dare say having Tom Cruise walk across the big screen toting a gun is more effective at selling firearms than a flurry of Republican ads.
FaithFaith in Focus
Britt Luby
My journal lists the names of 19 children this year who died after I spoke with their crying mother, their weary father.
Elizabeth McGovern, center, and Laura Carmichael, right, star in a scene from the movie "Downton Abbey: A New Era." (CNS photo/Ben Blackall, Focus Features)
Arts & CultureFilm
Jim McDermott
The danger with returning to characters who have struggled to find their way and earned their success is that if you don’t have a new story worthy of them, you risk undermining all that they have achieved.
Gabriele Gionti, S.J., an astronomer, points to a 1935 Zeiss telescope during a tour for media representatives of the Vatican Observatory at the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
“Being close to the created world is a way of being close to the creator, and that’s why sciences played such an important role in the apostolates of the Jesuits,” said the director of the Vatican Observatory.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
Matt Malone, S.J.
In the decade between Sandy Hook and Robb Elementary, America reported or commented on mass shootings approximately 171 times, or about once per month.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Carol Keehan, D.C., the former head of the Catholic Health Association who was credited with helping pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, was recognized with the Spirit of Francis Award from Catholic Extension.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
San Antonio’s archbishop said it was important to be with the people suffering to remind them they are not alone, to give families the support they need, and to show them “love, love, love.”
Archpriest Maximian Pogorelovskiy inside Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia church in Odesa. Photo by Matthieu de La Rochefoucauld.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Clotilde Bigot
“The church of Odesa shares the pain of its inhabitants. The church is not a building; it is people,” said Archpriest Maximian Pogorelovskiy, a spokesperson for the Orthodox Diocese of Odesa.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
On “Inside the Vatican” this week, host Colleen Dulle asks Gerard O’Connell how Archbishop Cordileone’s statement has been received at the Vatican and whether the Vatican will intervene.
Pope Francis is pictured while greeting the crowd during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 25, 2022.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
If the elderly, who have seen it all by that time, keep intact their passion for justice, then there is hope for love, and also for faith.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
The Lord did not withhold his kingdom from his first disciples, nor does he keep it from us.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Blase J. Cupich
The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights, too.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
The murder of George Floyd at the hands of police two years ago in Minneapolis sparked a national conversation about racism that continues today—the anniversary of his tragic death.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Catholic leaders are reacting with anger and calls to restrict guns following the latest mass shooting that left at least 19 children and two teachers dead.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“With a heart shattered over the massacre at the elementary school in Texas, I pray for the children and adults who were killed and for their families,” the pope said.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
For his novels, memoirs, biographies and collections of short stories and poetry, Larry Woiwode is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“I come from a largely pro-life, Italian-American Catholic family, so I respect people's views about that, but I don’t respect us foisting it onto others,” Ms. Pelosi said in response to the move by Archbishop Cordileone.