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Arts & CultureIdeas
Michelle Smith
Bloomsday is an ideal time to find the humor that springs forth in ‘Ulysses.’
Arts & CultureBooks
Joshua Hren
Dana Gioia’s new book is a love letter attesting to the illuminating and poetic moments of his education.
FaithFaith and Reason
Steven P. Millies
The Catholic Church in the United States is in danger of losing its relevance if its presentation of the Gospel is alien to the world in which people live.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
With prayer and with life, there remains only to have courage and hope, to to feel the prayer of Jesus strongly and to keep on going.
FaithPodcasts
Gloria Purvis
All of us like to associate ourselves with the faith and courage of the abolitionists and civil rights activists. But white Catholics, like most white Americans, generally opposed the abolition of slavery and desegregation efforts.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“No one is safe from their attacks. Anyone they are suspicious of, anyone they think are against them, they will arrest, they will torture and some of them are even shot to death.”
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Rachel Lu
Building a worker-friendly economy is a slow and difficult job. Stoking the rage and resentment of disaffected voters is much easier. Are pro-labor conservatives up to the task?
Anti-government protesters hide behind makeshift shields during clashes with the police in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The protests have been triggered by proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Filipe Domingues
What began on April 28 as a public reaction to a tax reform proposal from President Iván Duque has expanded into a massive mobilization of broad discontent.
Arts & CultureNews
The Associated Press
One of Germany’s most famous Catholic boys’ choirs, the Regensburg Cathedral Choir, plans to establish a separate choral group for girls for the first time in its more than 1000-year history.
Magazine
America Staff
America Media received 56 awards from the Catholic Media Association on June 11 for its groundbreaking coverage of events at the intersection of the church and world across print, digital, audio and video.
FaithNews
Joseph Wilson - Associated PressIain Sullivan - Associated Press
After a year of being kept off the Way of St. James due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, soul-searchers hoping to heal wounds left by the coronavirus are once again strapping on backpacks and following trails to the shrine in the city of Santiago de Compostela.
A priest raises the chalice and Communion host in this illustration. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Such debates don’t really happen elsewhere in the Catholic world.
FaithFaith and Reason
Peter Feuerherd
In April 1962, Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans not only denied Communion to three Catholics in his archdiocese; he formally excommunicated the three, who vehemently opposed his efforts to desegregate Catholic schools.
Jesuits and boys under picture of St. Ignatius at the Holy Rosary Mission circa 1880-1900. Courtesy of Marquette University, Raynor Memorial Libraries and Holy Rosary Mission – Red Cloud Indian School Records, ID: MUA_HRM_RCIS_02937.
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“The fundamental reality of children dying at these boarding schools is not a new story.”
FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
During his keynote address at the Catholic Media Conference on June 10th, Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles said the role of Catholic media is to prioritize the proclamation of the word of God.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
Kevin Spinale
Parsing the pros and cons of 'A Canticle for Leibowitz,' the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
Arts & CultureMusic
Sam Rocha
Túpac Shakur is widely recognized as a musical pioneer. On what would be his 50th birthday, it is time to recognize him as a prophet as well.
Corey Hawkins as Benny and Leslie Grace as Nina in “In the Heights” (photo: Warner Brothers)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The new movie version of “In the Heights,” directed by John M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”), will be a must-see for fans of “Hamilton.”
FaithExplainer
Sean Salai
“Scandal” is a word often heard used in recent months by U.S. bishops regarding the best ways to provide pastoral care and communicate authentic church teaching to pro-choice politicians who identify as Catholic.
Socialite turned nun Ann Russell Miller
FaithNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
San Francisco socialite Ann Russell Miller spent her early adult years chairing benefit galas, vacationing on yachts along the Mediterranean. But when her husband died, Miller took vows of silence and poverty to become Sister Mary Joseph.