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Adriana Montes - Catholic Review
Following Georgetown University's efforts to acknowledge and amend its history with slavery, Loyola University Maryland officially published a report detailing its own connections to slavery.
FaithNews
Tonny Onyulo - USA Today (RNS)
Many Ugandan Catholics oppose Pope Francis' approval of same-sex blessings. LGBTQ Ugandans have fled to neighboring countries to escape homophobia.
FaithScripture Reflections
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy
FaithScripture Reflections
Zac Davis
A Reflection for Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis
FaithScripture Reflections
Ashley McKinless
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops, by Ashley McKinless
Former death row inmates who were exonerated, from left, Randall Padgent, Gary Drinkard and Ron Wright, were among the nearly 100 protestors gathered at the state capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Jan. 23, 2024, to ask Governor Kay Ivey to stop the planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Alabama plans to put an industrial-grade respirator mask over Mr. Smith’s face and replace his breathing air with pure nitrogen gas, causing him to die from lack of oxygen. He will not be rendered unconscious before the procedure begins.
FaithFaith in Focus
Christine Lenahan
Kenneth Eugene Smith will face execution by the state of Alabama tonight. I pray that God may grant him peace.
Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of a building at a vocational training center that displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Julie Schumacher Cohen
Raised Christian and the daughter of an Israeli Jew, I have had to expand my worldview to learn about Palestinian history. It is important for President Biden to also acknowledge the suffering in Gaza.
Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS's "Sunday Morning," poses for a portrait on the set in New York on March 28, 1999. Osgood, who anchored the popular news magazine's for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)
Arts & CultureLast Take
Traug Keller
Jesuit education instills values of empathy and service. Charles Osgood didn’t miss that class: Those values ran deep and long in him.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The victim said he was sexually abused over a six-year period despite having told the rector that an older student was “bothering” him.
FaithScripture Reflections
Colleen Dulle
A Reflection for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle, by Colleen Dulle
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
Colleen and Gerry also parse the pope’s comments on declining birth rates in Italy and address the politicization of the issue and the pope’s call for global economic reforms that promote and support the well-being of young families.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The Latin Mass organizers said they wanted to show that, rather than threats to national security, they are instead “liturgy nerds” who are often apolitical.
This combo image shows President Joe Biden, left, Jan. 5, 2024 and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, right, on Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill McCormick, S.J.
When applied to political leaders, the language of “inevitability” and “invincibility” is profoundly dangerous. It also violates the teaching of the the Gospel that God has given us free will.
Father Gerard Quirke raises the chalice at Mass Rock overlooking Keem Bay on Ireland's Achill Island April 4, 2021. The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples with a steep decline in seminary numbers and with aging priests. (OSV News photo/Seán Molloy, courtesy Irish Catholic)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
RTÉ aired two documentaries in January looking at the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland: “The Last Priests in Ireland” and “The Last Nuns in Ireland.” But signs of hope can still be discerned amid the decline after years of church turbulence.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
In continuing his catechesis on vices and virtues, Pope Francis called avarice "that form of attachment to money that keeps man from generosity."
FaithNews
The Associated Press
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis invoked the extermination of Jews to remind the world that war can never be justified.
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
January 28, 2024, the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Listening for the divine voice and seeking out true prophets are the topics of this Sunday’s readings.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kerry Weber
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor of the church, by Kerry Weber