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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.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Richard Schiffman
A sudsy swill once, since restored and clean enough for waterfowl to roost.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Devin Kelly
who, when I saw her, was so small she could have slipped inside a pillowcase
FaithNews
Laura Ieraci - Catholic News Service
A national network of institutes of Catholic thought will soon launch as part of a new $3.65 million grant, issued by the John Templeton Foundation Feb. 1.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle explain the changes to the C.D.F. and how they fit into Pope Francis’ larger goal of evangelization.
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican’s big fraud and extortion trial resumes Friday with a new spy story taking center stage that is more befitting of a 007 thriller than the inner workings of a papacy.
FaithFaith and Reason
John W. O’Malley
As the three-year synodal process that will culminate in the 2023 World Synod of Bishops gets underway, John W. O'Malley, S.J., offers some historical context for what synodality is all about.
The exterior of St. Gregory Parish in Phoenix, Arizona.
FaithNews
Giovanna Dell’Orto – Associated PressLuis Andres Henao - Associated PressJacques Billeaud – Associated Press
The Rev. Andres Arango’s error was in saying, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” when he should have begun the sentence by saying, “I baptize you.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Addressing a symposium on the priesthood in the Vatican on Feb. 17, Pope Francis presented what he called the “four forms of closeness” that he considers fundamental to the life of a priest.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
That may indeed happen, and if it does, you will immediately, intuitively know this: You are going to be purified.
FaithGoodNews
Catholic News Service
When priests hang up their clerical robes, grab their aprons and head for their kitchens, what’s cooking? The answer can be found online at www.CooksWithCollars.com
Pope Francis leads his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Feb. 16, 2022.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
“To be a Christian is not only to receive the faith, to confess the faith, but to safeguard life, one’s own life, the life of others, the life of the Church,” Pope Francis said in his Wednesday audience.
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican is hosting a three-day symposium on the Catholic priesthood amid renewed public attention on clergy sex abuse scandals involving both children and adults and fresh research into the abuses of priestly power.
Sister Norma Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of Jesus, is pictured along a border wall between Texas and Mexico in late February 2018. (CNS photo/Barbara Johnston, courtesy University of Notre Dame)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“I’m mystified by any group that would call itself Catholic that is attacking the Catholic Church and its ministry,” Sister Donna Markham, the president and C.E.O. of Catholic Charities USA, said.
FaithFeatures
Ashley McKinlessZac Davis
To mark Jesuitical’s five-year anniversary, we are looking back on what we have learned from our guests—Catholics and non-Catholics alike—about navigating the modern world as people of faith.