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The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. Photo courtesy of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Politics & SocietyNews
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to 25 years in prison each for trespassing on the U.S. Navy base that houses six Trident submarines carrying hundreds of nuclear weapons.
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Catholic News Service
“This evil affects everyone, and all communities are affected by racism,” said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre.
The Atomic Bomb Dome is seen in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 2019.
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The bishops of Japan are renewing calls and prayers to build peace by abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide and promoting integral human development.
Photo: Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Kerry Weber
Perinatal hospice offers compassionate care to children with life-limiting conditions.
FaithFaith in Focus
Danielle Vaclavik
As the rest of the congregation, myself included, averted our eyes as our Lord stood in our midst, this man did not look away.
Visitors view a portrait of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, painted by the artist Robert McCurdy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature, died Monday at age 88.
Arts & CultureYour Take
Our readers
‘Who else has written so keenly and movingly about hope, evil, endurance, pain, greed, transcendence, all the things that make us human?’
Roxana Jaquez lights a candle at an ever growing memorial Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, outside the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting took place on Saturday.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Should a parish address current events at Mass? How? What if “current events” are national tragedies?
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old hero who charged a shooter at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, was posthumously named a Knight of Columbus.
Demonstrators stand outside the German bishops' spring meeting in Lingen on March 11, 2019. The sexual abuse scandal and demands for reform have changed the German church, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich said March 14. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA)
FaithDispatches
Renardo Schlegelmilch
German Catholics are embarking on what is being called a “synodal journey,” but it promises to be a potentially rocky one, focusing on subjects the church usually avoids.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
There is a reason apocalyptic movies make so much money.
Politics & SocietyNews
J.D. Long García
On Tuesday, Archbishop García-Siller tweeted that the president should “stop hate and racism, starting with yourself.” The tweet has since been deleted.
FaithFaith in Focus
Mark LaBelle
Upon hearing about some unthinkable violence somewhere in the world, the first thing I do when I get to the church on Sunday morning is pencil another intention into the prayers of the faithful. In some small way, it feels like a solemn duty.
FaithInterviews
Sean Salai
Jacques Servais, S.J., speaks about the Swiss theologian and onetime Jesuit who wrote extensively on the process of discernment.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Tia Noelle Pratt
Morrison’s work conveyed the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience.
FaithNews Analysis
Paul O’Donnell - Religion News Service
At a time when trust in traditional authorities like the church and its clergy is strikingly low, young adults and others are employing new ways to support each other when bad news or tragedy arrives.
Arts & CultureBooks
Maurice Timothy Reidy
A detective story is not what we have come to expect from Russo, who generally operates at the same, easy-going speed as his male protagonists.
Politics & SocietyNews
J.D. Long García
“Latinos in this community have a target on their backs.”
Members of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan stand on a road after federal police briefly blocked their way outside the town of Arriaga, Mexico, on Oct. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Jack Jenkins - Religion News Service
“At a time when we are facing the ‘highest levels of displacement on record,’ according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, we urge you to increase the refugee resettlement cap and to admit as many refugees as possible within that cap," the letter reads.
FaithLast Take
Shannen Dee Williams
Black Catholics have been at the forefront of the push to get the Vatican to confront the church’s racist past and present.
A family wades through a flooded street during heavy rains in New Delhi, India, Aug. 6, 2019. Catholic churches and other institutions opened their doors to people stranded in Mumbai and surrounding areas because transportation routes were blocked by high water and debris. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Thousands of train passengers were stranded in different areas of the city, Indian's financial capital, and in other suburbs and towns of Maharashtra state as two days of continuous rain began to submerge rail tracks, forcing authorities to cancel or divert services.