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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.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jenny Shank
In 'The Five Wounds,' Kirstin Valdez Quade depicts a family in which each member embodies human weaknesses yet remains worthy of love. Each finds they are stronger together than any of them is alone.
FaithNews
Simon Caldwell - Catholic News Service
The bishop's decision to join the Catholic Church represents the highest-level transfer since Gavin Ashenden, a former royal chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, became a Catholic at Christmas in 2019.
People eat at a restaurant in New York City Aug. 3, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
While recognizing that the U.S. economy has improved somewhat, a statement from the U.S. bishops addressed higher levels of poverty that have resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic.
FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
I have found that there’s more to life than work. That I am replaceable in my job but urgently needed in other roles and relationships in my life.
FaithFaith in Focus
Simcha Fisher
Surrendering bodily vanity is only the beginning of what happens to you when you become a mother.
Murray Bartlett, Jolene Purdy, Natasha Rothwell, Lukas Gage in ‘The White Lotus’ (photograph by Mario Perez/HBO)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Rob Weinert-Kendt
The show’s true subject is nothing less than spiritual sickness, fueled by the existential dread of folks with no material wants who nevertheless don’t know what to do with their lives or how to spend them happily with each other.
Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Sept. 1, 2021.
Politics & SocietyNews
Claire Giangravé - Religion News Service
The preparation process and the 2023 Synod have the potential to revolutionize the way decisions are made in the Catholic Church and promote a more decentralized structure of authority.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pleaded not guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy nearly 50 years ago, despite a Vatican investigation that determined he sexually abused minors as well as adults.
FaithFaith in Focus
Shannon Last
As images of desperate Afghan refugees flooded the news last week, I felt overwhelmed by my own inadequacy. Then I saw an Amazon wishlist of refugees’ concrete needs — and logged on to Twitter.
The development of the shipping container in the 1960s cut the cost of ocean shipping and permitted a colossal boom in global trade. (iStock/Yuri_Arcurs)
Politics & SocietyThe Moral Economy
John W. Miller
Hyperglobalization means cheap goods delivered fast. It also has implications for labor conditions, economic inequality and the environment, all of which we can no longer ignore.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
In this special deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle unpacks Pope Francis’ decision, the history behind it, and how it has affected devotees of the old Latin Mass.
Arts & CultureMusic
Matthew Zurcher
Like it or not, Kanye is our Wagner—a master architect of pure spectacle and a man whose unhinged brilliance confronts us all.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis said he plans to make several papal trips before the end of the year, including to Scotland in early November to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference.