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FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressBarbara Surk - Associated Press
A foundation says a legendary French priest and a lifelong advocate of the homeless has been accused of committing acts that would amount to “sexual assault or sexual harassment.”
FaithNews
OSV News
The National Eucharistic Congress officially began July 17 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis with a powerful holy hour that saw tens of thousands of people kneeling in silent adoration before Jesus in the Eucharist.
FaithNews
Justin McLellan – Catholic News Service
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández declared that the Vatican will only validate reports of Marian apparitions in “exceptional” cases that incur the special interest of the pope.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The 58-year-old Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça is widely recognized not only as a poet but also as one of the leading intellectuals of the Roman Curia.
Former President Donald Trump appears with vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance during the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill McCormick, S.J.
At one time, the presence of Catholics on both major-party tickets would have been cause for celebration. But now Mr. Vance and Mr. Biden reflect the political divisions among U.S. Catholics.
FaithThe Word
July 21, 2024, the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Today’s celebration for the National Eucharistic Congress would do well to maintain a close connection between the sentiment of revival of eucharistic devotion and the movement of Jesus’ own heart.
FaithScripture Reflections
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
The contributions of Walter J. Ong, S.J., to American letters are countless, and he remains a renowned figure in the study of communications, literacy, group psychology and mass media.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
We need more than cooler rhetoric. We need a politics for the common good.
Politics & SocietyNews
Jack Jenkins - Religion News Service Aleja Hertzler-McCain - Religion News Service
If Trump is elected, Vance would be the second Catholic vice president in US history—after Joe Biden.
FaithNews
Jonathan Luxmoore - OSV News
A group of American “Catholics and non-Catholics” and prominent cultural and intellectual personalities asked Pope Francis in an open letter July 15 not to further restrict the traditional Latin Mass.
FaithVantage Point
Walter J. Ong
From 1996: “Catholics and other Christians need to take into more explicit account in their sense of existence in a universe of which they form a more and more operational part.”
FaithFaith in Focus
Joe Laramie, S.J.
As a national preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival, I've preached in sunbelt parishes, humble rural churches and suburban auditoriums. All of them have been filled with God's grace.
FaithShort Take
Simcha Fisher
Once we start thinking about what God clearly made happen or clearly didn’t make happen, it opens up a whole world of uncomfortable questions.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures, with blood on his face, is assisted by guards after shots were fired during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
My fellow Americans, I have some bad news: This is who we are.
FaithNews
Greg Kandra
We need to pray—and ask some hard questions.
Politics & Society
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
"Together with my brother bishops, we condemn political violence, and we offer our prayers for President Trump, and those who were killed or injured," said Archbishop Broglio, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Politics & SocietyNews
Paul O'Donnell (RNS)
Many political and faith leaders, even as they prayed for Trump, also asked for prayers for the country as a whole, and particularly America’s polarized political landscape.
Politics & SocietyNews
Julie Carr Smyth, Jill Colvin, Colleen Long, Michael Balasmo, Eric Tucker and Michelle L. Price — Associated Press
Trump’s campaign said the presumptive GOP nominee was doing “fine” after the shooting, which he said pierced the upper part of his right ear.