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Bill Murray and Jeffrey Wright in ‘The French Dispatch’ (Fox Searchlight)
Arts & CultureFilm
Elyse Durham
Perhaps this is why Wes Anderson’s work resounds so strongly: We all long for homes to which we cannot return.
Jenny Alderson (Imogen Clawson), Scruff, Jenny’s dog, and James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) in “All Things Great and Small” (photo: Playground Television Ltd.)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
Truly, at times watching “All Creatures Great and Small” is like visiting Disneyland and thinking Anaheim is amazing when three blocks away families are living in their cars.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
A new Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll shows that 71% of Americans support legal limits on abortion and a majority of Americans — 54% — oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
FaithPodcasts
Colleen Dulle
On this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” we examine the story of Rutilio Grande through the eyes of his friends, family and scholars of his legacy.
Pope Francis hugs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014.
Politics & SocietyNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
In a previously scheduled speech to the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases, Pope Francis did not refer to the findings of a long-awaited report into how the Munich archdiocese handled abuse cases.
FaithFaith in Focus
Kevin JacksonDeniz Demirer
St. Adalbert’s-O.L.B.S. was the first Black Catholic parish in Cleveland, and we drove eight hours from New York City to Fairfax to make a short documentary on their history and rootedness. That was “the plan.”
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Pope Francis caused a Category 5 brouhaha on Jan. 6 during what was an otherwise thoroughly ordinary general audience at the Vatican.
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FaithShort Take
William Dailey, C.S.C.
A campus minister at Notre Dame has a message for gay students: We can challenge one another without thinking that disagreement is moral failure, bigotry or hatred.
FaithFeatures
Stephanie Saldaña
Today, in any given year, Taizé attracts tens of thousands of young people from around the world, who travel as pilgrims to this hilltop in France to meet one another, to sing and pray and to discuss what they feel are the most urgent issues of their time, from the climate emergency to refugees.
FaithDispatches
America Staff
The annual audit tracks not only new charges of abuse but also how well U.S. dioceses and eparchies are observing child protection protocols established in 2002 by the U.S.C.C.B. in accordance with its “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”
A man in Washington demonstrates near the U.S Capitol Jan. 6, 2022, holding a sign that says, “Desecration Day.”
Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
Readers respond to America’s January 2022 editorial, marking the one-year anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Nora McGillen
that spot where the swallow rose and fell slowly
Arts & CultureBooks
Patrick Gilger, S.J.
In "For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda," J. J. Carney profiles a strategy for being both Catholic and catholic—both uniquely ourselves and totally for the world.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Michael Waters
My noon shadow folds absence into my body
Arts & CultureBooks
Mary Gibbons
In his new book about the power of God's radical love, Greg Boyle introduces readers to new experiences in his ministry to former gang members and teaches valuable lessons about inclusivity.
Arts & CultureBooks
Brian P. Flanagan
In his book "Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear," Michael O’Loughlin has named some of the hidden glories of the Catholic Church’s responses to H.I.V./AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States.
Arts & CultureBooks
The latest novel by Richard Powers, "Bewilderment," is a meditation on love for our planet as well as our individual love for one another.
Joseph Ross is an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C. (photo: Gonzaga High School).
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Ciaran Freeman
Joseph Ross, an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C., says poetry requires us to look deeply at the world around us.
James Loughran, S.A., in front of the red- and gold-draped altar where Paul Wattson, S.A., the co-founder of the Society of the Atonement, celebrated his first Mass as a Catholic priest.
FaithFeatures
Doug Girardot
Fifty miles north of New York City, the Friars and Sisters of the Atonement—the founders of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity—continue their tradition of unifying Christians and mending souls.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
The greatest act of reverence we can give to the Scriptures is to prayerfully read them.