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Patrick Kavanaugh (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Arts & CulturePoetry
Paul Corcoran
Kavanagh’s poem looks to Advent for a sort of poetic and spiritual rebirth, a chance to reacquaint ourselves with the “newness that was in every stale thing.”
Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie star in a scene from the movie "Belfast." (CNS photo/Rob Youngson, Focus Features)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Belfast” presents itself as a family photo album: Violence may intrude, but it doesn’t crowd out the Christmas pictures.
Participants at the Asamblea Eclesial in Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico (photo: María Langarica/Celam) 
FaithFaith and Reason
Austen Ivereigh
It was Pope Francis who suggested that this was the moment for the continent to revive the vision of Aparecida—only this time in a synodal way, with the people of God as the protagonist.
Deacon Michael Boldizar hands the chalice to a communicant during Mass July 21, 2019, at St. Anne Church in Garden City, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithShort Take
Michael Rozier, S.J.
The thin body of evidence on the true health risks of bringing the chalice back to Mass should lead to humility rather than overconfidence. We must be open to changing behaviors based on new knowledge.
The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington, Oct. 22, 2021.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Sherman - Associated Press
The high court ruling came a day after a state court judge in Texas ruled that the controversial “heartbeat law” is unconstitutional, yet left the law in place.
Politics & SocietyNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The Christmas tree and Nativity crèche should evoke the joy and the peace of God’s love and not the selfish indulgence of consumerism and indifference, Pope Francis said.
Politics & SocietyJesuitical
Jesuitical
Jesus said the poor will always be with us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t end homelessness.
FaithAdvent Reflections
Zac Davis
A Reflection for the Friday of the Second Week of Advent
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Michael Rozier, S.J., said that the archbishop’s claim that his “good” immune system exempts him from needing a vaccine is simply out of touch with science.
FaithFaith in Focus
Kerry Weber
More and more Advent calendars seem aimed at adding to product lines rather than counting down to Christmas.
Ariana DeBose and David Alvarez star in a scene from the movie ‘West Side Story.’ (CNS photo/Niko Tavernise, 20th Century Studios)
Arts & CultureFilm
Rob Weinert-Kendt
What this quintessential stage musical needed, apparently, was a thoroughgoing cinematic makeover.
Colorful figures are pictured in the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square.
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Unlike more traditional depictions of the Magi, the Andean interpretation has them accompanied by llamas and bearing sacks of food from the region, including corn, quinoa and potatoes.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerard O'Connell speaks with Colleen Dulle about traveling with Pope Francis to Cyprus and Greece to “touch the wounds of humanity.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
From a vaccination clinic in the atrium of the Vatican audience hall to a visit to the ancient Iraqi city of Ur, Pope Francis demonstrated throughout 2021 what he means by seeing all people as brothers or sisters.
FaithAdvent Reflections
J.D. Long García
A reflection for the Thursday of the Second Week of Advent
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
The Christmas season is not your savior. Christ is. Your inability to feel joy in response to a season says nothing about your relationship to your savior.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A do-over. Who has not wanted one, at times with no little desperation? That’s what God gives us in Christ.
Flames and smoke billow from the Notre-Dame Cathedral after a fire broke out in Paris on April 15, 2019.
FaithShort Take
Doug Girardot
Like many parish churches built in the 1970s and ’80s, the Notre-Dame redesign seems to take its inspiration from sensibilities unique to our own decades, rather than drawing on time-tested understandings of God.
The sun sets at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington Nov. 29, 2021.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
In oral arguments that took nearly two hours, several of the justices found fault with the state’s decision process in determining just how religious a school was to decide if it could participate or not.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis arrived at the foot of the statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception at 6:15 a.m. and prayed for “the miracle of cure for the many sick people” in today’s world.