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A priest touches the photos of Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales, left, and Joaquin Cesar Mora Salazar during a Mass to mourn their death, at a church in Mexico City, on June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
One of Father Mora’s former students wanted me to know that he was much more to her than just another name, another victim, another number in Mexico’s spiraling civil violence.
Yura Nechyporenko, 15, hugs his uncle Andriy Nechyporenko above the grave of his father Ruslan Nechyporenko at a cemetery in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 21, 2022. The teen survived an attempted killing by Russian soldiers while his father was killed. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Michele DunneEli S. McCarthy
What can spiritual power do in a war zone? An interfaith peace delegation went to Kyiv to provide pastoral accompaniment and explore ways to break the dynamics of violence.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 24. (CNS photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Robert David Sullivan
Will a reversal of Roe v. Wade, which would return the power to regulate abortion to the states, be popular with American voters and Catholic voters in particular? Not necessarily.
A woman prays during a Black History Month Mass at Immaculate Conception Church in the Jamaica Estates section of Queens, New York City, on Feb. 20, 2022. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Alessandra Harris
It is not enough to issue occasional condemnations of racism. The U.S. church must invest in Black Catholic churches and schools, as well as diocesan offices for Black parishioners.
FaithShort Take
John J. Strynkowski
The Rev. Michael J. Himes was a theologian who taught with energy, order, concreteness, wit—and exuberance.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jim McDermott
These hearings are an attempt to reassure us all that the American story we were taught as kids is not some fairytale that adults told us to help us sleep or to make us easier to manipulate.