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FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Young advocates of the Tridentine liturgy like to believe that it was always celebrated with great beauty and dignity. Older Catholics know that this is not true.
Men cutting turf from bog in Maamturk Mountains near Cong, Ireland. iStock photo.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
Destroying bogland is the Irish equivalent of burning the Amazon.
Politics & SocietyNews
Paul Schratz - Catholic News Service
“Many of the pejorative remarks would appear to be directed to Catholics.”
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced to staff May 4 the closure of the Washington and New York offices of Catholic News Service. 21 employees will be laid off.
Pope Francis greets children during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 4, 2022.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
The story of Eleazar refusing to back down from his faith even in his old age reminds us that faith without action is just hypocrisy.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Charles C. Camosy
With a focus on unity—even in spite of substantial differences—the issue of abortion looks quite different than the picture painted by those who want to see our polity burned to the ground.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
No list of brilliant Catholic novelists would be complete without Dame Muriel Spark.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Rachel Lu
The recent leak to Politico of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito suggests that the Supreme Court will soon strike down Roe v. Wade. We must consider the road ahead.
Deirdre McQuade, former director of planning and information for the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an undated photo.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Longtime pro-life advocate Deirdre McQuade died April 21 after a bout with metastatic breast cancer. She was 53.
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
The Gloria Purvis Podcast
Do vulnerable women, especially poor women of color, have the same choices available to them when determining their future and that of their unborn children?
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is willing to help negotiate an end to the Russian war against Ukraine, but warned that religious leaders “are not clerics of the state.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The Supreme Court appears set to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion for nearly 50 years, according to a leaked initial draft of a court opinion obtained by Politico and published online the evening of May 2.
Kane Tanaka, then 116 years old, at a nursing home in Fukuoka, Japan, on March 9, 2019. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John W. Miller
“Please cherish the elderly,” Pope Francis says. “Because they are the presence of history.” Kane Tanaka, who died in April at the age of 119, is an example of what Francis is talking about.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Sherman - Associated Press
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
May 8, 2022, the Fourth Sunday of Easter: The metaphor of Jesus as shepherd and his followers as sheep also offers a framework for their relationship.
This 1898 photo provided by the Sisters of the Holy Family (SSF) shows members of the religious order of African-American nuns in New Orleans.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Crary - Associated Press
After 14 years of tenacious research, Shannen Dee Williams arguably now knows more about America’s Black nuns than anyone in the world.
FaithDispatches
J.D. Long García
The mission to reach the marginalized L.G.B.T. community led Father James Martin and his collaborators to launch a new website, outreach.faith, on May 1.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
As the Russian attack on Ukraine entered its 67th day, Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to pray the rosary every day during the month of May for peace.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Why did Church Militant use Marjorie Taylor Greene to attack the U.S. church?
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory wore a white hard hat instead of a bishop’s miter as he processed to the altar for the second annual Building Trades’ Workers Memorial Day Mass.