God is present. Love is present. Jacob is present, even in our loss. Even in the excruciating feeling of his absence ...

Director Óliver Laxe spoke with NCR about art that kills the ego, disruption in the creative process and facing our shadows.

"These detention centers … cannot have empty beds, because otherwise they don't make money," said Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller. "It's business, business, business, business, business." ...

Amid Timothée Chalamet's character Marty's lies, hustles, infidelities and callow performativity is the core of Catholic teaching: Redemption is not reserved for the pious nor perfect.

Leo's decision to send the Vatican's UN envoy to Washington sends a strong signal about his desire to revive diplomacy at a time when the United States has increasingly turned inward.

Bishop Emanuel Shaleta of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of St. Peter the Apostle in San Diego was "contacted and detained" ...

"Christian hope is nothing like optimism or the unfounded conviction that 'everything will work out fine,' " writes Daniel P. Horan.

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Still, the findings "don't support that Americans are overarchingly more judgmental or moralistic than in other countries," said Jonathan Evans, senior researcher at Pew Research Center.

"If you don't think it's going to affect you because it hasn't affected you right now, well, it's only a matter of time ...

Pope Leo XIV issued a "forceful appeal" to end increasing violence in the Middle East as the United States, Israel and Iran ...

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