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FaithFaith in Focus
Thomas J. Gumbleton
In an essay drawn from his preface to 'No Guilty Bystander,' a biography of Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, the late peace activist reflects on life lessons and expresses gratitude.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a recent interview book, Pope Francis said Archbishop Gänswein “at times made difficulties for me.” Now the former private secretary to Pope Benedict XVI will be made a nuncio in an as-yet-unnamed country.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI dropped “Patriarch of the West” from his official titles. Vatican officials at the time said the title was removed because it was theologically imprecise and historically obsolete.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
April 14, 2024, Third Sunday of Easter: Luke writes of Jesus’ resurrection appearances with such subtlety and emotional nuance that one can forget that he is telling a larger story.
FaithScripture Reflections
Cecilia González-Andrieu
A Reflection for Friday of the Second Week of Easter, by Cecilia González-Andrieu
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein
Arts & CultureFilm
Michael O’Brien
“Late Night with the Devil” is a film that lives on the knife’s (or dagger’s) edge—a stark reminder that we are all possessed by something.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell analyze "Dignitas Infinita."
FaithOf Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
If you are not challenged somewhere in your own moral thinking by reading it, then you most likely have not read it thoroughly enough.
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
Trump has blamed the issue of abortion and pro-life voters for the Republican Party’s underperformance in the 2022 midterm election cycle—a theme he repeated in his April 8 social media posts.
FaithNews
Pope Francis
In a speech at his weekly general audience, Francis said that “fortitude is a fundamental virtue because it takes the challenge of evil in the world seriously.”
FaithFaith and Reason
Bill McCormick, S.J.
For those who were hoping for something “new” in this document, perhaps this will be disappointing. And yet this wisdom about dignity is ever ancient, ever new.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Gerhard Lohfink, who died last week in his native Germany at the age of 89, leaves behind an impressive legacy of faith-informed scholarship on the New Testament and Christian discipleship.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Michael O’Brien
N.C.A.A. women’s hoops attracted a record number of viewers this season—and made stars of some compelling players and coaches.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
In a church that values tradition, the idea of “novelty” strikes some people as strange, and a reporter asked the cardinal if people could expect that in another 80 years the teaching in the document would change again.
FaithNews
Gina Christian - OSV News
The Vatican’s new declaration, “Dignitas Infinita” (”Infinite Dignity”), garners praise from U.S. Catholic leaders for its comprehensive addressing of key issues surrounding human dignity, including poverty, migration, abuse, gender issues, and digital violence.
A composite photo of Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman and Jordan Peterson
Arts & CultureIdeas
Nathan Schneider
​After B-list careers in their primary professions, these men have found their callings in the earbuds of the young.
Briana, a 1-year-old migrant girl from Peru, is carried by her father, Jordan, as they search for an entry point into the United States past a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 2024. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The declaration from the Vatican goes beyond the focus on single issues and throws a spotlight on the much broader field of violations of human dignity.
FaithPodcasts
Preach
Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, particularly the tools of repetition and organization, says John Baldovin, S.J. But also, he adds with hyperbolic emphasis, “you have to read, read, read, read, read and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.”
Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar of Rome, at the beginning of a meeting with priests and deacons working in the Diocese of Rome Jan. 13, 2024, in Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Major Penitentiary is sometimes referred to as chief confessor of the Catholic Church because he has broad faculties that are reserved to the Holy See to grant pardon and forgiveness for sins for which an ordinary priest or bishop cannot grant absolution.