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Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in a scene from ‘La Dolce Vita’ shot in the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Stephen G. Adubato
Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” scandalized Italian audiences. But it was a group of Jesuit priests who were determined to offer a more nuanced interpretation of the film.
Arts & CultureInterviews
Maurice Timothy Reidy
Martin Scorsese is leading one of the most elaborate projects devoted to the saints in recent memory. “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” streams on Fox Nation.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac are joined by Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso, an Indigenous activist fighting to protect the Amazon rainforest and serve its people.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressNatalie Melzer - Associated Press
The freed hostages also said they hoped the incoming Trump administration would work with the outgoing Biden administration to bring the remaining hostages home.
Community
America Media Events
How did this year’s session differ from last year’s? What does this mean for our church? For my parish? For me, personally?
Arts & CulturePoetry
Joe Hoover, S.J.
if you go to Mass, you hear the near-perfect opening line in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God
FaithFeatures
Colleen Dulle
A trip to Argentina shows not only Francis’ legacy here, but also the model of ministry that shaped him.
FaithFeatures
Maggie Phillips
External realities are complicating the traditional structures on which parishes have relied for decades.
FaithFaith in Focus
Juan Wulff
What I saw at the U.S.-Mexico border reminded me of the solidarity with migrants so often lacking in our country today.
FaithFaith in Focus
LuElla D'Amico
We need to remember that even in the middle of dealing with whatever big thing is happening now: We are alive.
Arts & CultureBooks
Mary Grace Mangano
A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May describes himself through his poems.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jerome Donnelly
In 'Tyranny, Inc.,' Sohrab Ahmari supplies a framework and examples of what has shaped the desperate plight of a growing number of Americans.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jessica Hooten Wilson
'The Cemetery of Untold Stories' reads like a novel made up of all the stories that Julia Alvarez no longer wants to carry in bits and pieces in her head,. And Alvarez knows that we all are—and need to be—story creatures.
Sculptures of the three wise men in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (iStock/ampueroleonardo).
Arts & CulturePodcasts
Maggi Van Dorn
Besides its musical beauty and thrilling sense of wonder, the song ‘We Three Kings’ offers a treasure trove of stories to unwrap.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Our readers weigh in on the value and spiritual benefits of vegetarianism, inspired by the experience of Fr. Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Sudanese refugees who have fled the violence in their country walk in line in the desert in Koufroun, Chad, to receive food rations in May 2023. (OSV News photo/Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Kelly Ryan
When Pedro Arrupe, S.J., founded Jesuit Refugee Service in 1980, there were approximately 10 million forcibly displaced people in the world. Today, there are 120 million.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The Editors: This moment cries out for the kind of decisive action that perhaps only a lame-duck presidency can bring about: putting the burden of peace on Israel for bringing the war in Gaza to an end.
FaithNews
Gretchen R. Crowe - OSV News
Methods of further incorporating “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on care of creation, into the life of the church at the local and national level was a point of discussion for the U.S. bishops in Baltimore during their fall general assembly Nov. 13.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The cause for the canonization of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus, took an important step forward today, Nov. 14, with the closing of its diocesan phase.
Firefighters stand on a Kamloops Fire Rescue truck at a wildfire near Fort St. John, British Columbia, May 14, 2023. Wildfires have always occurred, but experts say the warming climate is increasing their severity. (OSV News photo/Kamloops Fire Rescue handout via Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Looming on the geopolitical horizon this week is a significant threat to the multinational campaign on climate change that emerged far from Baku, when Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States.