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Arts & CultureBooks
James T. Keane
Looking back on sports stories designed to educate a certain class of white American male into the virtues of postwar civic culture.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
The introduction of "no-fault" divorces in the United Kingdom will undermine marriages from the outset, said the Catholic bishops of England and Wales.
Politics & SocietyNews
Jacob Comello - Catholic News Service
Ideological adversaries sparred over what criteria make a fetus capable of experiencing pain.
FaithLent Reflections
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
God is also a transcendent deity whose grandeur and majesty command our attention and our reverence.
FaithFaith in Focus
Ashley McKinless
Thanks to the resilience of the U.V.A. team—and the fervent prayers of many fans—the darkest day in the program’s history will now be remembered as the first step on their road to redemption.
FaithNews
Emma Vinton Restuccia - Catholic News Service
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, accompanied by his predecessor Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, visited some of the sites and people of the Archdiocese of Washington
Colombian riot police block the way to the Colombian side in the Colombian-Venezuelan border in Cucuta on April 2. (CNS photo/Ferley Ospina, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The executive branch headed by President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela “lacks legitimacy” but has de facto power, while Mr. Guaidó has legitimacy but not executive power. Venezuela in effect has two governments.

FaithFaith in Focus
Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.
No place in the world has such a talent for rebuilding what once seemed lost as Rome.
FaithNews
Michael Kelly - Catholic News Service
Church and government officials paid tribute to an aid worker for the church's international development agency who died following a road accident in Guatemala.
Politics & SocietyNews
Colleen Rowan - Catholic News Service
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, who is the apostolic administrator of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese, is "steadfastly affirming" the diocese's child protection standards in wake of a lawsuit filed by the State of West Virginia.
Politics & SocietyNews
Simon Caldwell - Catholic News Service
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, has made an urgent appeal to the young people of his country to abandon gangs, gang violence and the use of knives. "Knife crime" is at its highest since records started being kept since 1946 and Catholic clergy in Britain are focusing on how to divert youth from such destructive social behavior.
Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, India, is led away for questioning by police on the outskirts of Cochin Sept. 21, 2018. Indian police have charged Bishop Mulakkal of repeatedly raping a nun in her rural convent, the Associated Press reported April 9, 2019. (CNS photo/Sivaram V, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
The bishop was charged April 9 with rape, illegal confinement and intimidation.
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Mary Hallan FioRito
For the rare cases in which mothers consider late-term abortions to spare infants from pain, perinatal hospice programs offer a compassionate and life-affirming alternative.
FaithFaith in Focus
Barbara Mahany
I—a girl schooled by the Sisters of Loretto and a phalanx of Jesuits—have found my sense of the divine animated by the sacred Jewish lens of wonder and wisdom.
FaithLent Reflections
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
Perhaps we should ask, with the Russian Orthodox monk and theologian Anthony Bloom, “When we think of the absence of God, is it not worthwhile to ask ourselves whom we blame for it?”
FaithNews
Jacob Comello - Catholic News Service
In a statement released April 6, Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley condemned the bills, calling them "threatening to human life and dignity."
A South Sudanese girl is seen at the Nguenyyiel refugee camp in Gambella, Ethiopia, in October 2017. (CNS photo/Tiksa Negeri, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The Vatican described the retreat as “a propitious occasion for reflection and prayer, as well as an occasion for encounter and reconciliation.”

Arts & CultureLast Take
Katelyn Beaty
Oftentimes we find that the people on the other side of a hot-button issue are motivated by good reasoning and deeply held values. They are not the enemy.
FaithExamen
James Martin, S.J.
Examen Fifth Sunday of Lent
FaithFaith and Reason
Sean ReynoldsDobie Moser
Scores of lay parish and diocesan leaders have shared that their faith in the church and her leadership has been shaken to its roots.