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FaithDispatches
Molly Cahill
Rebecca Christian offers a broader understanding of reproductive justice that might surprise people who only know the term from popular discourse.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Nicole-Ann Lobo
“Selling Sunset” paints an unapologetic portrait of our brutal capitalist culture.
FaithNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis’ expression of openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights does not change church teaching on marriage.
FaithJesuitical
Jesuitical
Do “real Catholics” have to vote for Trump? That’s what Jeannie Gaffigan was hearing following her husband Jim Gaffigan’s uncharacteristically profanity-laced tirade against the president.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressMaria Verza - Associated Press
A Mexican television broadcaster confirmed Thursday that Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions were made during a May 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.
FaithExplainer
Colleen Dulle
Did the pope “endorse” civil unions? (Yes.) Were Francis’ words mistranslated? (No.) Is this “old news”? (Yes and no.)
Zimbabwe riot police break up a protest for better pay and personal protective equipment by nurses in Harare in July. (AP photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Marko Phiri
The latest move to militarize Zimbabwean society appears an attempt not to reward career military officers who remain loyal to the ruling ZANU-PF party but to exert control over a different group of professionals who have been pressing for reform.
Politics & SocietyExplainer
Matt Malone, S.J.
Can textualists judges like Amy Coney Barrett take a broad view of interpreting the Bible and a narrow view of interpreting the Constitution? The short answer is yes, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
FaithExplainer
James T. Keane
Twitter users swapped "pope memes" last week using digitally altered images of Pope Francis celebrating the Eucharist. Was it harmless fun or sacrilege?
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Question swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Vatican and the Chinese government will extend an agreement signed in 2018 regarding the appointment of bishops.
Arts & CultureBooks
Patrick Gilger, S.J.
Jason Blakely show that the very tools we human beings use to try to understand the world in fact end up constructing it, for better or for worse.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
We all yearn for love, so it is a small wonder that sometimes we fall in love with the notion of love before we meet someone whom we can love genuinely. The same can happen in our relationship with God.
Yury Melkonyan, 64, sits in his house, damaged by shelling from Azerbaijan's artillery during a military conflict in Shosh village outside Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Advocates warned that the Azerbaijani offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh could represent only the beginning of a renewed, genocidal aggression against the Armenian people.
Police tape borders a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2018. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzales, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
In Mexico, where both organized and petty crime has exploded to unprecedented levels, vigilante justice has become increasingly common; citizens who gun down assailants during robbery attempts often make headlines as heroes.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
In a new documentary that premiered in Rome today, Pope Francis says separating migrant children from their parents is “something a Christian cannot do. It’s cruelty of the highest form.”
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
In a new documentary that premiered in Rome today, Pope Francis reiterated his support for civil unions for same-sex couples and slammed the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Gay couples deserve legal protections for their relationships, Pope Francis said in a new documentary.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
Evo Morales said Pope Francis called him to congratulate him on his party’s win after exit polls showed that the former Bolivian president’s top pick, Luis Arce, would win the general election.
Students at Boston College pray the Examen, while wearing masks and engaging in social distancing. (Photo courtesy of Joseph Vecchio and Emily Egan)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Christopher Robles
The coronavirus pandemic has caused campus ministries around the country to reassess how to best minister to their students.