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FaithExamen
The Rev. James Martin, S.J., leads listeners through an Examen on the saints. What role do the saints play in your life?
Politics & SocietyColumns
As the crisis of climate change attains more urgency, many more people—especially the young—are coming to protest how humans are treating the planet to the detriment of all the living.
FaithVideo
When Sister Desiré Anne-Marie Findlay was considering joining the Felician Sisters, she prayed that she wouldn’t have to give up her passion for dance. Here, she talks about how she’s changed through her formation with the sisters: how she’s come to let her natural curls fly free and how her dance has become part of her vocation—and her prayer.
FaithVideo
Sister Celine, a teacher, and Sister Marie Estelle, a nurse, explain what drew them to join a branch of the Carmelite order that began in Mexico—and what it’s like to go out (even just to the gas station) in their traditional habit.
FaithVideo
Sr. Alison McCrary, a community lawyer in New Orleans who corresponds with inmates on death row, explains how her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience help her fully serve others in a world that values money, sex and power.
FaithVideo
Sr. Monica Nobl, a Peruvian archaeologist, and Sr. María José Correa, a world-class pole-vaulter representing Chile, never anticipated becoming nuns until they met the Sisters of the Servants of the Plan of God, a new order of women religious who give their lives to evangelization, service and solidarity with the poor.
FaithVideo
The late, legendary journalist Cokie Roberts explains how Catholic nuns and sisters built up some of the first schools and largest healthcare systems in the United States after their arrival in 1727.
Politics & SocietyJesuitical
A conversation with Rep. Ro Khanna of California’s 17th District
FaithVatican Dispatch
“My election as pope did not convert me suddenly,” Pope Francis said, “so as to make me less sinful than before. I am and I remain a sinner. That’s why I confess every two weeks.”
Politics & SocietyNews
The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for each church for information leading to an arrest. Mr. Ceniceros said the diocese is offering an additional $5,000 for each church, adding that the same person or persons are believed to be responsible for all three incidents.
Politics & SocietyNews
Lawmakers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca have approved a measure to decriminalize abortion, despite vocal church opposition.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
The stakes are too high for the independent-minded to sit out party primaries, writes Kevin M. Doyle, a pro-lifer and onetime Democrat. We must make a choice, even it is a random one.
Politics & SocietyNews
Two more Australian states have passed legislation criminalizing priests who fail to report the abuse of children disclosed during confession.
Politics & SocietyNews
In anticipation of the 2019 World Day for Migrants and Refugees, a group of bishops, women religious, lay ministers and others interested in the plight of migrants spent the days prior to the Sept. 29 observance listening to tales of hope, dashed dreams, resilience and uncertainty that are in abundance among migrants in this border region.
Politics & SocietyNews
U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation and retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, died Sept. 26 in Rome. He was 83.
Politics & SocietyNews
Less than two weeks before the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon was scheduled to begin at the Vatican, the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council reported that the number of indigenous land invasions and indigenous murdered in Brazil in 2018 soared.
Politics & SocietyNews
In a sign of hope, all grade levels at Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Academy in Freeport, Grand Bahama, started holding classes Sept. 23—at least on a part-time basis.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
The highest court in the land ruled unanimously and unambiguously that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in attempting to suspend Parliament only weeks before Brexit, the withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union, is set to take effect.
FaithThe Good Word
“Death in life” must happen in this life if we are truly to live. We have to encounter an event that overturns our agenda, our way of being in the world, our very sense of self.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
We may celebrate nonviolent leaders, but Americans have long been skeptical of pacifism, writes Ryan Di Corpo. The case of peace activist Rosika Schwimmer, denied citizenship in 1929, still echoes today.