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Olivia Rodrigo performs during the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Amanda Bergeman
Olivia Rodrigo’s childhood naïveté meets harsh reality in ‘GUTS’.
Christine Kirk as Sofi in ‘Infinite Life’ at the Atlantic Theater Company (photo: Ahron R. Foster)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
For theater fans, the arrival of a new Annie Baker play is cause for celebration.
Pope Francis speaks with bishops from Colombia on the final day of their “ad limina” visit to the Vatican on March 24, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithShort Take
Paul D. McNelis, S.J.
Seeing the pope every five years is not enough.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
Popularity. Temptation. Vanity. Wearing Pink on Wednesdays.
People in Soweto, South Africa, walk past electricity pylons July 3, 2022, during frequent power outages because of aging coal-fired plants. (CNS photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
In a pastoral letter, titled “All Citizens to Reclaim the Dream,” the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference encouraged South Africans not to lose hope.
FaithFaith in Focus
Nancy Small
The hardest prayer in St. Ignatius’s spiritual exercises eventually brought peace to the dying.
FaithShort Take
Rabbi Daniel F. Polish
After this letter, all of us must contend with the implications of the fact that he knew about the death camps—and he did nothing.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Michael O’Brien
To this day, my best friends are people I grew up with on Staten Island. But I am ashamed of how some members of my community have reacted to the recent arrival of migrants.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The Catholic Church excommunicated Luther. The Lutheran Augsburg Confession calls the papacy the ‘anti-Christ.’ But both sides are hopeful about the future of Christian unity.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
We now know everyone who will participate in the historic month-long gathering at the Vatican this October.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
Veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell joins host Ricardo da Silva, S.J. to give an update on what we know so far about the new letter and what questions remain.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist, by Michael J. O’Loughlin
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
September 24, 2023, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: In the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, Matthew complicates the idea of fairness in the workplace and in the kingdom of heaven.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A Homily for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
A march and a Mass on Sept. 16 were part of the celebration of the memory of former Jesuit James Carney, who disappeared in Honduras on Sept. 16, 1983 (photo: Jeremy Zipple, S.J.).
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jeremy Zipple
James Carney pledged his life to the cause of destitute campesinos in Honduras, living and working among them as a parish priest and organizing campesino cooperatives to fight for land reform and human rights.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Ukrainian Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia and Metropolitan for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States speaks about his church's synod and its meeting with Pope Francis.
FaithScripture Reflections
Alessandra Rose
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs, by Alessandra Rose
Arts & CultureBooks
Mary Grace Mangano
Katy Carl’s debut collection of short stories examines how people manage change in their lives—whether they have actively sought what comes next or had it forced upon them.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press
The blessing of same-sex couples on Wednesday was the latest sign of rebellion of believers in Germany’s most populous diocese with about 1.8 million members.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
A new report from Pew Research Center stated that American's views of the family are “complicated” and “more pessimistic” than previous statistics showed.