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Kurt Jensen - Catholic News Service
For the first time since 1974, when it first began, the message of the national March for Life to participants is: Stay home.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
With days left in President Trump’s term, Sister Susan Francois has followed through on her pledge to post a daily prayer, even if they have become a bit more assertive after the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Joni Mitchell strums guitar outside the The Revolution Club, London, England, Sept. 17, 1968 (Alamy).
Arts & CultureMusic
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Like a master painter’s sketchbooks, “Archives” is uniquely revealing of the roots of Joni Mitchell’s distinctive voice both as a singer and a writer.
Arts & CultureTheater
Isabelle Senechal
It is a story made possible by young people’s collective efforts to find some creative solace during Covid-19.
Regé-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne “Bridgerton” (Liam Daniel/Netflix)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Simcha Fisher
Welcome to a world where soft porn meets Lisa Frank meets... not Jane Austen, but someone who has definitely heard of Jane Austen.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
In one day, the Catholic Church on three continents lost three leaders to COVID-19.
FaithJesuitical
Jesuitical
This week on Jesuitical, the hosts talk with Father Bryan Massingale about the toxic mix of racism, idolatry and spiritual emptiness on display at the Capitol on Jan. 6—and how Christians should respond.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory encouraged people to get the coronavirus vaccine and addressed the unrest of Jan. 6 that shook the nation.
Politics & SocietyInterviews
Bill McCormick, S.J.
In the elections of 2016 and 2020, Trump lost the popular vote. Yet he managed to win some of the most loyal Democratic communities in the nation.
FaithFaith in Focus
Matthew Zurcher
A picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus hangs above my bed and is one of my most precious possessions. Its artist, like Jesus, has been condemned to die for his crimes.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
For a variety of reasons, “especially in relation to the political situation” in the United States, the Legionaries of Christ university in Rome will not honor Father Frank Pavone.
FaithNews
Monika Scislowska - Associated PressCzarek Sokolowski - Associated Press
The activists could face up to two years in prison if convicted on charges of offending religious sentiment and desecration of Poland's most-revered icon.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis told Uruguay's new ambassador to the Holy See that a future visit to the country as well as to his native Argentina is still very much on the table.
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
President Trump’s departure from Washington, D.C., will not heal the country in the ways we tend to think it will. The cycle of rivalry and violence will likely recur.
Composite photo CNS/Cindy Wooden/Paul Haring
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Australian government’s international financial watchdog, Austrac, said it overestimated bank transfers from Vatican City to Australia over the past six years by more than $1.5 billion dollars.
Demonstrators in in Terre Haute, Ind., gather to protest the execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 12. She was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute soon after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a hold on her execution at 1:31 a.m. (EST). She was the first woman to be put to death in federal prison since 1953. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Bill McCormick, S.J.
The rush of federal executions was an “aberration” that does not reflect the great successes of the death penalty abolition movement in recent years.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Ms. Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and human rights advocate, served as a co-chair of Mr. Biden’s Catholic outreach group.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Consider the countless souls, those alive today and all those in generations past, who have never been given an opportunity to respond to the Gospel the church preaches.
Workers inside a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, pork processing plant wear protective gear and are separated by plastic partitions as they carve up meat. (Photo courtesy Smithfield Foods via AP)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
 “Covid knows no boundaries or immigration status; it is an indiscriminate killer.”
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell discuss Pope Francis’ challenge to the U.S. to overcome its divisions and how the U.S. bishops will need to step up in order to achieve that.