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Since the founding of the first Cristo Rey school in Chicago in 1996, Cristo Rey schools have become a national network with multiple religious orders as sponsors (photo: Sage Baggott).
FaithFeatures
Kaya Oakes
Since their founding in 1996, Cristo Rey schools have become a national network with multiple religious orders as sponsors.
Politics & SocietyYour Take
Our readers
A 2019 Gallup survey showed that as few as 4 percent of Americans had a conversation about religion with their family and friends in the prior week.
Political instability led to the addition of Venezuela to the Global Conflict Tracker last year. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
The Global Conflict Tracker, part of the Council on Foreign Relations, listed 26 “conflicts around the world of concern to the United States” as of February, and there are new threats on the horizon.
FaithOf Many Things
Sebastian Gomes
What became clear over these past seven years is Francis’ unrelenting commitment to creating opportunities for open and mutual encounters between him and others.
Arts & CultureBooks
John W. Miller
Dan Bevacqua’s debut novel, the darkly comic 'Molly Bit,' follows the rise and fall of a Hollywood star.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jennifer MacNeil
Edward K. Kaplan’s book on Abraham Heschel will help readers feel a portion of the anguish Heschel endured in his lifetime. But even in his anguish, Heschel found not just spiritual consolation, but profound hope from his deep faith.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joseph McAuley
Emmanuel Macron not only wants to “reform” France but to “transform” it.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Nicholas Samaras
I’m tired of the world’s incessant buzz and scrutiny, the news and the news of the news, the onslaught.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
We must seek healing for our own spiritual blindness in order to see the light of Christ.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
Mary and Martha inspire us to maintain an unshakable faith, even during the darkest of hours.
FaithLast Take
Jenny Cafiso
The denial of education to girls is a violation of their dignity as human beings made in the image of God, writes Jenny Cafiso of Canadian Jesuits International.
FaithExplainer
Nicholas D. SawickiVivian Cabrera
It’s Friday and we know what you want to know: What fish sandwich should you eat today?
FaithJesuitical
Jesuitical
Each day, George Williams, S.J., passes through metal doors plastered with the word “CONDEMNED” to minister to the men of San Quentin State Prison.
People wearing masks for protection from the coronavirus tour the Vatican Museums at the Vatican Feb. 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The normal services of the health and hygiene sector of the Vatican city-state were “temporarily suspended” following yesterday’s positive test for Covid-19 on one patient in order “to sanitize the areas.”
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The coronavirus poses a threat that knows no borders. As Catholics, neither does our love and concern for our neighbors.
A man receives ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass inside the Church of the Assumption in Lagos, Nigeria, Feb. 26, 2020. (CNS photo/Nyancho NwaNri, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Shola Lawal
The Lenten season has begun, and more Nigerians are likely to attend religious gatherings. To stall a possible outbreak, however, Archbishop Alfred Martins of the Archdiocese of Lagos said contact should be restricted.
Politics & SocietyNews
Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
The affected areas were in the West Bank: Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour and Jericho for 14 days following seven reported cases of the coronavirus in the Bethlehem and Beit Jala area.
Several visitors enter an empty security queue before visiting St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on March 4. Visitors and pilgrims to churches, museums and landmarks in Rome have sharply declined following an outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in northern Italy. (CNS photo/Junno Arocho Esteves)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In a small indication of how rapidly the contagion is affecting Italy, by the time the Vatican spokesman sent his communique to the media, the number of victims had risen dramatically—the total number of cases rising to 3,858 and deaths to 148.
Mary Clare Fichtner, O.P., (far left) is joined by Springfield Dominican Anti-Racism Team members (left to right) Richard Bowen, Howard Derrick and Valeria Cueto. Photo courtesy of Springfield Dominicans.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
William Critchley-Menor, S.J.
The Dominican sisters are motivated by a recognition that the blinding racism that allowed nuns to buy and sell human beings in the past could blind them to their own complicity in racist structure today.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Nathan Schneider
As walls go up, so does the hoarding behind them