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May 2025

Vol. 232 / No. 5

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Faith Of Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.April 17, 2025

The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.

Politics & Society Your Take
Our readersApril 17, 2025

America's readers weigh in on the president's temperament and conduct.

Two male "Lights On" volunteers distribute food to recently released prison inmates. (IStock/:pandapix)
Faith Short Take
Brady SmithMarch 07, 2025

The “manosphere” calls for more testosterone, more spectacle. But servant leadership, embodied in Catholic men’s groups past and present, encompass the fullness of human experience.

Middle-aged Black woman, seen from behind, sits alone in a pew during Catholic Mass (iStock/abalcazar)
Faith Short Take
William I. OrbihApril 17, 2025

As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.

Brenda and Yarely—two "Dreamers" posing for a photo before their 2018 graduation from Trinity Washington University—consider themselves symbols of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)
Politics & Society Dispatches
J.D. Long GarcíaMarch 11, 2025

Diminishing public support, along with the Trump administration’s intense focus on immigration, has left DACA recipients uncertain about their future.

Solemniser Neasa Ní Argadain officiates a wedding through OneSpirit Ireland. (Photo courtesy of Neasa Ní Argadáin)
Faith Dispatches
Connor HartiganMarch 14, 2025

While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in prominence.

A large crowd gathers as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a rally at Zocalo Square in Mexico City March 9, 2025. (OSV News photo/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
David AgrenMarch 28, 2025

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s deft handling of the mercurial U.S. president has sent her approval rating soaring, reaching 85 percent in the latest survey from the newspaper El Financiero.