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Cardinal Burke processes into Mass without a face mask, surrounded by acolytes.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remains hospitalized, on a ventilator, “in serious but stable condition” with COVID-19, a spokesman said late Aug. 17.
Screenshot of Pope Francis in video about Covid-19 vaccination
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service The Associated Press
The video insists that vaccines are safe, effective and an “act of love.” It features Pope Francis as well six cardinals and archbishops from North, Central and South America.
A woman receives a Covid-19 vaccine at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, La., Aug. 5, 2021. (CNS photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“We have to be promoting the common good, and this is the one of the ways that we do it,” Bishop Stowe said in an interview with America.
Academic instruction will largely be delivered virtually, but Lumen Verum students will also have guided time for social interaction. (iStock/SDI Productions)
FaithShort Take
Thomas W. Carroll
A new Catholic secondary school in the Archdiocese of Boston will combine virtual instruction and in-person activities. The founder of Lumen Verum Academy, Thomas W. Carroll, writes about this new model.
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, poses for a photo with trainees in this undated photo.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
This is the first time Homeboy Industries has received this level of funding, enabling a new level of capacity to serve people who have been in prison and involved in gangs.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The Jesuits, who have been in Afghanistan since 2004, have suspended their mission in the country “indefinitely.”
Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar, southwest Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Sidiqullah Khan)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Ryan Di Corpo
Our invasions of Afghanistan and Vietnam may have different beginnings, but their ends show that we are capable of repeating basic mistakes, writes Ryan Di Corpo.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
The War in Afghanistan was waged in the name of every American. At the very least, we should ask how it has (or hasn’t) affected us.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
“Please; to be with Jesus is to be joyful, it is also to have the capacity that holiness gives us to have this sense of humor.”
FaithNews
Todd Richmond – Associated Press
Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the Catholic Church’s most outspoken critics of Pope Francis and a vaccine skeptic, said he has COVID-19 and his staff said he is breathing through a ventilator.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Numerous organizations, including Catholic agencies, are accepting donations to assist with their emergency response to the Haiti earthquake.
A Taliban fighter sits on the back of a vehicle with a machine gun in front of the main gate leading to the Afghan presidential palace, in Kabul, Afghanistan
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
“I join in the unanimous concern for the situation in Afghanistan. I ask all of you to pray with me to the God of peace, so that the clamor of weapons might cease and solutions can be found at the table of dialogue.”
Arts & CultureBooks
Alex Taylor
A journey into the fictional worlds of Joshua Hren in his 'In The Wine Press' invites us to consider the character of our own grief and suffering.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has sent a letter saying there is no basis in Catholic teaching to offer a religious exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The Supreme Court announced Aug. 12 that it will not hear an appeal from a group of students at Indiana University who are opposed to the university’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
FaithFaith in Focus
Grace Doerfler
I want to belong to a church that is willing to see my L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and me as just like straight and cisgender Catholics in our striving to follow Jesus. Can Catholic church leaders stand in my shoes?
Jonathan Roumie, right, plays Jesus in ‘The Chosen’ (photo: Angel Studios).
Arts & CultureTelevision
Nathan Schneider
Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus has fearsome power to open the Scriptures to us and the women and men who follow him are people in whom we can find traces of ourselves. It helps me love the Lord like I never have before.
FaithFaith in Focus
Patricia Lawler Kenet
I am told that at the last moment, my mother sat up, looked towards heaven and fell back to her pillow. I chose to believe Mary came to her, took her and is with her still.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
If only the priest would turn his back on members of the congregation, the movie’s logic goes, and recite the liturgy in a language they don’t understand, the pews would be full and the seminaries overflowing.
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
I am awestruck by the beauty of the Eucharist wherever I encounter it. That’s a big reason why the so-called liturgy wars bore me.