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Arts & CultureIdeas
Jim McDermott
Staples Center in Los Angeles is now the Crypto.com Center. St. Patrick’s Cathedral will no doubt continue to change in the coming decades, but one thing it will never do is rename itself #JesusWins Cathedral.
FaithShort Take
Dorian Llywelyn, S.J. — The Conversation
If any app helps people to be more patient, humble, just, and attentive to the poor, it’s a good thing. But being an active member of a real community is likely needed as well.
Pope Francis leads his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Nov. 24, 2021.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
“Everyone can find in St. Joseph—the man who goes unnoticed, the man of daily presence, of discreet and hidden presence—an intercessor, a support and a guide in times of difficulty.”
FaithFaith in Focus
Joe Hoover, S.J.
How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
Here is a way to show how much you really love your children: Do the paperwork.
Politics & SocietyNews
Darlene Superville - Associated Press
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, helped a Washington food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before they left town to resume their family tradition of spending the holiday on tiny Nantucket Island.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Mary Gordon is one of America's greatest Catholic writers—just don't ask her why she stayed.
Pope Francis embraces Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan during a meeting with clergy and religious at the cathedral in Milan.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“It seemed to me, right from the beginning, that Francis’ style of pontificate was like a punch in the stomach from the Holy Spirit to wake us up,” Cardinal Angelo Scola says in this exclusive interview.
Arts & CultureMusic
Mike Tenney
Olivia Rodrigo's lyrics cover many of the same topics I discuss with my Catholic high school students. As a church that infamously struggles to reach and retain young people, we have something to learn from her.
Ed Sheeran performs at the 23th NRJ Music Awards ceremony in Cannes, in the south of France, Nov. 20, 2021. (Sipa via AP Images)
Arts & CultureMusic
Keara Hanlon
No matter how far he has risen in fame, Ed Sheeran has stayed true to himself.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
“During times like these with severe division among people and the potential for social unrest, it is important for us to remember Jesus’ commandment to love one another,” Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki said.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The pope “joins you in asking the Lord to bestow upon everyone the spiritual strength which triumphs over violence and overcomes evil with good,” said the message released Nov. 23.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“Blessed is the bishop who makes poverty and sharing his lifestyle because with his witness he is building the kingdom of heaven.”
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“I can’t live in this situation anymore and I’m afraid of destroying my physical, psychological and spiritual health,” Sister Aleksandra says in “Veil of Silence,” by Salvatore Cernuzio.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
“Among the injured are one of our Catholic priests, as well as multiple parishioners and Waukesha Catholic school children,” Sandra Peterson, communication director for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, said.
In this photo Pope Francis kisses Trappist Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher’s hand during a meeting at the cathedral in Rabat, Morocco, March 31, 2019.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher died 10 minutes after receiving the anointing of the sick at the start of a Mass for the feast of Christ of the King.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Eduardo Campos Lima
The current mischaracterization of Freire by the political right in Brazil has parallels with the campaign of the political right in the United States against critical race theory.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
With Advent coming during an ongoing pandemic, Christians are called to hold on to hope and foster a season of compassion and tenderness, Pope Francis said.
Students hold placards as they demonstrate to demand global action on climate change as part of the "Fridays for Future" movement in São Paulo March 15, 2019. The banner reads: "Hey Ricardo Salles, climate change is not fake news." The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences hosted a workshop Sept. 13-14 on the "post-truth" era in communications. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis to young people: “You have been entrusted with an exciting but also challenging task: to stand tall while everything around us seems to be collapsing; to be sentinels prepared to see the light...to be builders amid the many ruins of today’s world; to be capable of dreaming.”
Arts & CultureFilm
Zoe Ramushu
“King Richard” charts how Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, made good on the promise few believed possible.