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FaithJesuit School Spotlight
John W. Donohue
As a young teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., John W. Donohue, S.J., worked with Thomas J. Jones, the senior member of the lay faculty: “From him I was to learn more about the practice of teaching than from any book or course in education.”
Sean Bean in the prison drama “Time,” the latest series from Jimmy McGovern (photo: BritBox).
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
Jimmy McGovern’s work is marked by a very Catholic instinct to look where no one else will.
Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
In November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a teaching document on the Eucharist at their fall meeting by a vote of 222 to 8, with three abstaining. Our coverage elicited hundreds of comments. Here are some samples.
Arts & CultureBooks
Diane Wilson’s book 'The Seed Keeper' is an immersive, affecting account of family and history, trauma and survival, seeds and gardening, stories and healing.
Arts & CultureBooks
Diane Scharper
David Diop's new novel centers on the filial love between two Senegalese riflemen, close childhood friends who joined the French army because they hoped to become French citizens at the end of World War I.
Arts & CultureBooks
Nathan Beacom
In her new book, Uprooted, Grace Olmstead investigates the social and personal costs of shopping for a place to live the way we shop for cars.
Sister Sylvia Ndubuaku: “We are for women the society has rejected. We receive traumatized women with this illness and we perform free surgeries for them.” Photo by Patrick Egwu.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Patrick EgwuEkpali Saint
Sister Sylvia Ndubuaku: “We are for women the society has rejected. We receive traumatized women with this illness and we perform free surgeries for them.”
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Jan. 9, The Baptism of the Lord: Today we are reminded of the implications of our own baptism as a sacrament that orients us toward mission and service to others following the model of Jesus.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Louis Damani Jones
I assume I was seen in the way a postcard is seen
Arts & CulturePoetry
Jane Zwart
it is easier to trust God with worlds than with sons
Politics & SocietyLast Take
James Martin, S.J.
“Reading authors like bell hooks taught me to be alert not only for instances of sexism and racism but for patterns of it,” writes Father James Martin.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Jan. 2, The Feast of the Epiphany: The traditions of the Epiphany invite us to think about how we can find our way to Christ throughout the year.
FaithDispatches
Colleen Dulle
As Dorothy Day's cause for canonization moves from the local phase to Rome, Colleen Dulle shares her insider's perspective.
Politics & SocietyNews
Colleen Dulle
An Israeli counter-drone technology company says that it protected Pope Francis and 60,000 people from a rogue drone at an outdoor Mass in Sastin, Slovakia, on Sept. 15.
Father Alonzo Cox is assisted by Deacon Rachid Murad, left, as he celebrates a Mass marking Black Catholic History Month. Pierre Toussaint, seen on a banner at the altar, is one of six African American Catholics who are candidates for sainthood.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
Out of the more than 10,000 men and women recognized as saints—which includes 11 Americans and a total of 899 that have been canonized by Pope Francis—none are African Americans.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell take a look back at this year in Vatican news.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The decrease of vocations to religious life, including in the Society of Jesus, is a lesson in humility and a reminder that a calling to religious life depends on God, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Greece.
FaithAdvent Reflections
Valerie Schultz
A Reflection for Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
So, who is Mary? Like any other character in the Gospel, we are meant to try on her life in meditation, to learn from her what it means to be a disciple. Mary is one of us.
Debris, including a wrecked SUV, surrounds a destroyed home in Mayfield, Ky., Dec. 11, 2021, after a devastating tornado ripped through the town.
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“God is not in the devastation. He’s not in the destruction. He was not in the storm,” said the director of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Owensboro, Ky. “But he’s in the response, and that’s where we are.”