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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Although Franciscan Father Mychal Judge’s religious order has not pushed the cause for his sainthood, organizations touched by his work with H.I.V./AIDS victims are now taking it up.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
The Texas abortion law wins a battle in the culture war but at what cost?
Cardinal Juan José Omella, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, at a wooden lectern in 2018.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
The cardinal commented on media reports that Bishop Xavier Novell Gomà was now cohabiting with Silvia Caballol Clemente, a divorced mother of two, following Pope Francis’ acceptance of his resignation Aug. 23.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The 9/11 attack not only changed world history but also impacted the future of the Catholic Church.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Jesus went to his death trusting in the love of his father. That was the wisdom he preached, both in the words he used and in the witness that he gave.
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Kristen Day
If Planned Parenthood does not trust crisis pregnancy centers, the abortion Goliath should beat the centers at their own game.
Politics & SocietyFaith in Focus
Renée Darline Roden
Until all structures of sexism are transformed and the patriarchal mores in our hearts and relationships are converted, there will always be unwanted pregnancies.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
A new bishop has been installed in China’s Wuhan Diocese, making him the latest to be ordained under a deal between the Vatican and China.
FaithFaith and Reason
Rabbi Daniel F. Polish
The catechesis that Pope Francis offered in August is in direct and explicit contradiction to the idea that supersessionism has itself been superseded.
FaithPope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
Baptism is not merely an external rite. Those who receive it are transformed deep within, in their inmost being, and possess new life.
Community
America Media Events
Professor Deaton and Bishop Caggiano will each deliver remarks and then engage in a conversation moderated by Professor Kaboski.
Pro-life activists demonstrate against legal abortion near Mexico's Supreme Court building in Mexico City July 29, 2020.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Observers say the court decision sets precedent and will lead to decriminalization across the country. The decision also removed criminal sanctions for abortion providers.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
“Pope Francis invites the entire church to reflect on a theme that is decisive for its life and mission: ‘It is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the church of the third millennium,’” the document says.
Visitors touch the names engraved in the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.
FaithFaith in Focus
Grace Doerfler
A college student reflects on the duty we have to carry on the memories of Sept. 11, 2001—even if we aren't old enough to remember the day.
Former president Donald Trump at a lectern.
Politics & SocietyNews
Jack Jenkins - Religion News Service
“We did a lot for the Catholic vote,” the former president said on a call announcing the launch of a new national faith advisory board. “So we’ll have to talk to them. We’re gonna have to meet with the Catholics.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
To date women haven’t been able to vote—not even the religious superiors who participate as representatives of the world’s 641,000 nuns.
Altar server Angelo Alcasabas prepares the altar during an annual “Pre-Pride Festive Mass” welcoming L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City on June 29, 2019. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithShort Take
Luke Janicki
A task force created by the Archdiocese of Seattle urges more pastoral outreach to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics. But it declined to press for changes to employment provisions at Catholic institutions.
Politics & SocietyNews
The Associated Press
A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled.
Politics & SocietyInterviews
Grant Kaplan
“Nonviolence created the pressure that caused the grape boycott to work,” says Jerry Cohen, who represented the United Farm Workers for nearly a decade and worked closely with Cesar Chavez.
Dartanian Stovall of New Orleans, La., looks at the house that collapsed with him inside during the height of Hurricane Ida, Aug. 30, 2021.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Doug Girardot
Spring Hill College, located in Mobile, Ala., volunteered to shelter 150 students who were displaced in the wake of Hurricane Ida from Loyola University New Orleans—a sister Jesuit school.