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FaithScripture Reflections
The demons of Jesus’ time—and the ones that plague us today
A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy
FaithScripture Reflections
What God says during the storms of our lives
A Reflection for Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis
FaithScripture Reflections
God always starts small
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops, by Ashley McKinless
Former death row inmates who were exonerated, from left, Randall Padgent, Gary Drinkard and Ron Wright, were among the nearly 100 protestors gathered at the state capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Jan. 23, 2024, to ask Governor Kay Ivey to stop the planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith may already be dead by the time you read this.
Alabama plans to put an industrial-grade respirator mask over Mr. Smith’s face and replace his breathing air with pure nitrogen gas, causing him to die from lack of oxygen. He will not be rendered unconscious before the procedure begins.
FaithFaith in Focus
A prayer for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith
Kenneth Eugene Smith will face execution by the state of Alabama tonight. I pray that God may grant him peace.
Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of a building at a vocational training center that displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
President Biden is known for his empathy. I pray it will extend to Palestinians.
Raised Christian and the daughter of an Israeli Jew, I have had to expand my worldview to learn about Palestinian history. It is important for President Biden to also acknowledge the suffering in Gaza.
Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS's "Sunday Morning," poses for a portrait on the set in New York on March 28, 1999. Osgood, who anchored the popular news magazine's for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)
Arts & CultureLast Take
Remembering CBS Sunday Morning’s Charles Osgood, a Jesuit grad and radio icon
Jesuit education instills values of empathy and service. Charles Osgood didn’t miss that class: Those values ran deep and long in him.
FaithNews
Vatican appeals court finds priest guilty of ‘corrupting a minor’
The victim said he was sexually abused over a six-year period despite having told the rector that an older student was “bothering” him.
FaithScripture Reflections
What St. Paul can teach us about the vulnerability of recovery
A Reflection for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle, by Colleen Dulle
FaithPodcasts
Why Pope Francis is worried about declining birth rates
Colleen and Gerry also parse the pope’s comments on declining birth rates in Italy and address the politicization of the issue and the pope’s call for global economic reforms that promote and support the well-being of young families.