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Two men shake hands at the United Nations
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Lesley Manville as Mrs. Harris (photo: Focus Features)
Arts & CultureFilm
Michelle Smith
‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ explores the pitfalls of materialism through characters who long for the elegance and glamor of designers like Christian Dior.
FaithExplainer
Jill Rice
Padre Pio is known in part for his prophetic ability, his healing power and receiving the stigmata. But during his life and after his death, these expressions of the 20th-century saint’s holiness have been debated.
peace wall between sets of houses, looking down from a helicopter or plane. one side is catholic and one protestant, though that is not visible here
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael Kelly - Catholic News Service
For the first time ever, more people in Northern Ireland identify as Catholic than Protestant, 101 years after the jurisdiction was founded with a Protestant majority in mind.
archbishop william lori of baltimore stands at a lectern and talks wearing vestments that are white and red
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Archbishop William Lori, the U.S. bishops' pro-life chairman, stated that Catholics must work together to create a world in which all are welcome, which requires justice and love.
FaithScripture Reflections
Jill Rice
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Padre Pio, by Jill Rice
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
In the second part of this exclusive interview, Cardinal Grech reveals in new depth the plans for the continental and Roman phases of the global synodal process.
A man in a blue suit bows to Pope Francis, with a sister in her habit standing to his left
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
“You can leave a mark,” Pope Francis told members of the global network; just make sure that “your mark is positive and moves toward integral human development.”
white wall with hole in it, a black box sticking out with compost material on it
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
California is now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show 'respect for the body of the deceased.'
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
Also on the show: How does Pope Francis' approval of sending arms to Ukraine square with his criticism of the arms trade?
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone
Pope Francis has asked Catholics to pray this September for an end to the death penalty, and we should ask ourselves a key question: Is it really necessary to kill in order to protect society?
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy
FaithInterviews
Gerard O’Connell
Starting Sept. 21, a team of 35 people "summoned from all continents" went to Frascati, outside Rome, to synthesize the reports from phase one of the synod.
Adnan Syed, the man whose legal saga spawned the hit podcast "Serial," exits the Cummings Courthouse a free man after a Baltimore judge overturned his conviction for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee, Sept. 19, in Baltimore. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
Politics & SocietyIdeas
Jim McDermott
There is no doubt that the attention that the podcast “Serial” brought to his case helped Adnan Syed, who was released from prison on Sept. 19.
Photo: Michael Matlon/Unsplash
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
What grace must come, and by what means, for us to see more of the world as it truly is?
CAMEROON BISHOPS MARY REDEDICATE
Politics & SocietyNews
Ngala Killian Chimtom - Catholic News Service
Bishops in Cameroon have spoken out against a recent kidnapping of clergy and laypeople at the St. Mary’s Catholic Church, an outgrowth of separatist violence hurting the country.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
In his Sept. 21 general audience, Pope Francis recaps his trip to Kazakhstan, where he met with authorities there as well as with the small Catholic population.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kerry Weber
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Matthew, by Kerry Weber
The Dorothy Day Staten Island Ferry arrives in New York for final preparation before her first commuter run on Nov. 8, the Catholic Worker co-founder’s 125th birthday. Photos by Kevin Clarke.
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Dorothy Day famously never wanted to be called a saint; how might she have responded to the idea of having a Staten Island ferry named after her?
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
John Irving writes characters who, like Flannery O’Connor’s American South, seem somehow God-haunted.