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FaithScripture Reflections
Robert Buckland
A Reflection for Thursday of the Third Week of Lent, by Robert Buckland
FaithTelevision
Connor Hartigan
Much of the appeal of “Severance” lies in its multiple dimensions: It is a workplace satire, a science-fiction drama, a searing critique of faceless corporations and mad-scientist plutocrats.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, by Father Terrance Klein
Photo of young boy with dark hair, wearing a yellow T-shirt, looking up at the camera with a sad expression (iStock/123ducu)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Julie Schumacher Cohen
It isn’t the cuteness, the nationality, the religion, the hair or skin color of a child that makes them innocent but rather just being a child.
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
March 30, 2025, the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Jesus’ parable in Luke’s Gospel masterfully illustrates three characters, the father and two sons, each of whom provides an insight on the human condition.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order is making a broad gesture of reparations to some 20 women who say they were sexually, psychologically and spiritually abused by a famous ex-Jesuit artist.
FaithScripture Reflections
Julian Navarro
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent, by Julian Navarro
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in 'America' more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial through to a story just last week.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In an interview with an Italian newspaper, Pope Francis’ lead doctor described in some detail the two critical situations where the pope came close to death.
FaithNews
Gina Christian - Catholic News Service
Bishop Mark Seitz led a March 24 demonstration and prayer vigil to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.
People protest against a law to legalize euthanasia as the Spanish Parliament prepares to vote on it in Madrid in this Dec. 17, 2020, file photo. On March 18, 2021, Spain's parliament legalized physician-assisted suicide. (CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Bridget Ryder
“Just don’t open the door. They can’t enter without a court order,” Ms. Castellanos recalled her advice to Maricarmen. “If she had opened the door that day her daughter would be dead.”
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Preaching for Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C, Rev. Stephen Tully complicates the story of the prodigal son, allowing his ministry among marginalized communities to shape his reading and preaching of the parable.
Flowers and a sign reading "RIP USAID" are seen outside the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Feb. 7 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert Buckland
A scholarship program in Belize funded by U.S.A.I.D. gave me an incredible opportunity to change my life for the better. I saw it as proof that the United States was practicing love toward its neighbors.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life has published a pastoral framework to help dioceses strengthen and promote the pastoral care of human life.
FaithNews
Paulina Guzik - OSV News
“We have 82 volunteers and we are open all week long,” said Cardinal Krajewski, the pope’s charity point man, adding that each doctor has one or two on-calls in the clinic, and that the Lenten initiative was an extra activity for them.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is back home in the Vatican after spending 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where was treated for double pneumonia and survived two crises where his life was in danger.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday, but he must continue the therapies and observe “a period of rest and convalescence for at least two months,” his doctors said.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Supporters will see Pope Francis for the first time since Feb. 14 as he intends to appear at the window of his suite at Gemelli Hospital.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“I can say that it has certainly been a very hard time for him, this month, for him who loves to give himself entirely, to be there in the hospital bed without being able to help others,” Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández said.
n this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
“Trump [is] flexing his power and trying to push the law into areas that have not been tested before...and the challenge really is not to the people affected but to the rule of law itself.”