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Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 1995 bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States. It remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the country's history.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis warned against “the risk” of “being struck by an even worse virus” than Covid-19, namely “selfish indifference.”
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
This week on "Inside the Vatican," Molly Burhans explains how location data can help the church use its resources more efficiently to extend care to the greatest number of people.
Photo: Netflix
Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
When someone refers to a “foul” system, he is not talking only about law enforcement and prosecution.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joshua Hren
Noted for his acid tongue, Evelyn Waugh hated the United States and its citizens and let them know it. However, he felt more and more drawn to them on repeated visits.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Cameron Alexander Lawrence
I’m caught in my longing to be with you somewhere else.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The church and government in Italy are making plans which would allow for the gradual--though limited--resumption of public Masses and funerals.
Pope Francis celebrates Mass on April 17, 2020, in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
In his homily during morning Mass in the chapel of his residence, Pope Francis warned against "detachment" from the sacraments, the church, and each other, saying that it was "dangerous."
Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, N.M., wears a mask and gloves while giving Communion to a passenger of a vehicle during the Easter Vigil in the parking lot of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Las Cruces April 11, 2020. Bishop Baldacchino became the first-known U.S. prelate to lift a diocesan ban on public Mass April 15, 2020, and told priests they may resume sacramental ministry if they follow state health mandates. (CNS photo/courtesy David McNamara, Diocese of Las Cruces)
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, New Mexico is reversing his previous decision to ban public Masses due to the coronavirus pandemic and will allow Masses to resume, with restrictions.
In an editorial published April 17, 2020, by the Spanish magazine Vida Nueva, Pope Francis said Christians are called to be joyful witnesses to Christ's victory over death during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS file photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis says our experience today mirrors in many ways that of the disciples of Jesus after his death and burial in the tomb. Like them, “we live surrounded by an atmosphere of pain and uncertainty,” and we ask, “Who will roll away the stone [from the tomb?]”
Faith
Thomas Levergood
Cardinal George had much to teach us about the ways in which "reason finds itself strengthened in its dialogue with faith, and vice versa."
Politics & SocietyNews
Frederick Nzwili - Religion News Service
Archbishop Utembi said with the reemergence of the hemorrhagic fever, the anti-Ebola measures had to continue. He said government medical teams had moved to the areas where the cases had been reported.
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Deportations of migrants to Central America has continued during the COVID-19 crisis, even though the countries to which the migrants are being sent have otherwise closed their borders and imposed quarantines.
FaithFeatures
Eve Tushnet
The value of work is that it gives structure to life’s chaos; it is simple, intelligible even when your own heart is baffling; it lets you be of service to others, making every job well done a kind of living amends; and, above all, good work brings humility.
Arts & CultureBooks
Benjamin Carter Hett’s 'The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic' shows how a flawed but genuine democracy could give way to the vilest regime imaginable.
FaithFaith in Focus
Julia Walsh
I visualized the monstrance standing still and silent within the closed tabernacle.
From left, clockwise: “The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy” by Jen Norton; “The Visitation” by James B. Janknegt; “Mary, Undoer of Knots” by Annie Vaeth; and a traditional painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (iPhoto).
Arts & CultureArt
Sarah Neitz
Hanging religious art shakes up class-based ideas about how our home should look. 
Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
America surveyed parents to see how their families have adapted to schooling at home.
Arts & CultureBooks
Christiana Zenner
The core of Roger Haight's new project is to ask “what science can teach Christian theologians about our own self-understanding” and to offer an answer to Christians who “either do not know how to process their Christian faith in this context or call it into question altogether.”
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
It is basic to Christian faith that believers serve one another as an expression of their belief in God.