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Villagers fleeing the violence in Myanmar are pictured under candlelight at a school in the Thai border village of Mae Sam Laep. Cardinal Charles Bo is asking the people of Myanmar to say the rosary and participate in eucharistic adoration for peace and justice. (CNS photo/Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters)
FaithNews
Gerard O’Connell
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo said “the midnight attack made the hapless people flee to the jungle. Their fate is still not known to the outside world.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis asked everyone to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.
Ramez al-Masri, 39, navigates the edge of a crater where his home was destroyed by an air-strike prior to a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Beit Hanoun, the northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“Violence is also in the language, in the political decisions, in the conditions of life under which the Gaza population has been living many years.”
Arts & CultureIdeas
David Brooks
'You entered BC during one historical era which had one set of values. You graduate from BC at the start of a different historical era, with a new set of values, which you will write with the book of your lives.'
Politics & SocietyVideo
Michael J. O’LoughlinBryan N. Massingale
A year later, what has changed? As we begin to move on from pandemic and re-enter the real world, are we leaving this issue too fast?
A man from Brazil holds his 9-month-old daughter in Andrade, Calif., April 19, 2021, as they wait to be transported by Border Patrol after crossing into the United States from Mexico. (CNS photo/Jim Urquhart, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Luma Simms
The right to emigrate is central to of Catholic social teaching, but we often neglect the right to live safely in one’s own land. We must help people to stay and build better countries for themselves.
FaithNews
Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press
Gulluni said his office was prepared to prosecute Lavigne for Croteau's killing, but he died Friday at the age of 80 before he could be arrested.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Babrow sued the Vatican City State’s telecommunications office in a Rome court last month, alleging it was wrongfully profiting off her creativity and was violating the original intent of her artwork.
FaithPodcasts
Gloria Purvis
On episode one of The Gloria Purvis Podcast, Gloria reflects on the past year since the murder of George Floyd and speaks to a priest from a historically Black parish in the Twin Cities.
FaithFaith and Reason
Mark Brumley
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and others are acting for the good of souls. As a last resort, they propose denying Communion to people who persistently and publicly promote the grave evil of legal abortion.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kathleen Foody - Associated Press
Nationally known activist and priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger will be reinstated after an investigation found “no reason to suspect” he sexually abused children.
Pope Francis delivers a message to an online prayer service marking the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola, in this still image taken from video released by the Vatican May 23, 2021. The pope said God's plans for individuals are greater than the plans they have for themselves. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
In Pamplona, five hundred years ago, all Ignatius’ worldly dreams were shattered in an instant. The cannonball that wounded him changed the course of his life, and the course of the world.
Rafael Maeder Moreira, 12, rubs his arm after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine at the Annenberg Foundation in Los Angeles on May 13. (CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Mary Doyle Roche
Parents must always weigh the risks and benefits of health care decisions for their children, writes Mary Doyle Roche. In the case of Covid-19 vaccines, they must also consider solidarity with other families.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The Vatican has long justified the costs because its communications operations are at the core of the Holy See’s main mission: to communicate the Catholic faith to all corners of the globe.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Cardinal George Pell is enjoying his first Roman spring since being exonerated of sex abuse charges in his native Australia.
FaithVideo
America Video

How is the Holy Spirit alive in the world today? We asked six senior Jesuits to reflect on their experiences of the Holy Spirit and where they see the activity of the Spirit in the church and the world.

Come Holy Spirit!

 

FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
While May 24 has been celebrated with prayer for and with the church in China every year since 2008, Francis’ message on Sunday comes at the end of a week in which a number of troubling news reports reached the Vatican.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis identified three suggestions that are typical of the Holy Spirit: Live in the present. Look to the whole. Put God before yourself.
FaithFaith in Focus
Mickey McGrath, O.S.F.S.
I derive much of my hope, inner peace and creative inspiration from those saints and prophets who lived in and spoke from the margins outside the white, privileged worlds of power and authority in both church and society.
FaithFaith
Joe Hoover, S.J.Molly Cahill
In an effort to foster a prayerful community in celebration together, America has compiled a list of events that will be updated as the year goes on.