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Benedictine Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, leader of Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem's Old City (Courtesy of Dormition Abbey Jerusalem)

Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem prepares for a very different kind of Easter

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Holy Week in Jerusalem this year "will be very quiet," says Benedictine Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, whose monastery is in financial peril in a Christian community that also faces increasing attacks by religious extremists.

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Members of Walking with Moms in Need groups, from Queen of the Rosary Parish in Overland Park, Kansas, and Church of the Nativity in Leawood, Kansas, throw a baby shower for an expecting mom. (Courtesy of Katie O’Hara)

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Bishops' project for moms in need aims to change church's pro-life image

Parish "Walking with Moms in Need" groups help women who are facing difficulties with pregnancy or parenting, but critics say the program is mere window dressing.

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At the March 19 "Catholic Prayer for Trump" at Mar-a-Lago, a man identified as "Father Dennis" prayed for attendees and the Trump family, and blessed the meal.

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Mar-A-Lago prayer event labels Trump voters' 'only Catholic option'

Featuring apocalyptic rhetoric tinged with Christian nationalism and far-right grievances, the March 19 "Catholic Prayer for Trump" event at Mar-a-Lago presented a bleak portrait of life in the United States. 

ByBrian Fraga
Bishop's process through St. Peter's Basilica.

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After his son's abuse, a deacon left the Catholic Church. Now he's excommunicated

A permanent deacon in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, whose then-teenage son was molested by the priest he once served alongside, is now excommunicated after leaving his ministry, because he formally left the Catholic Church, according to the recent decree written by his bishop.

ByGina Christian, OSV News
Former Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland speaks at a rally in Los Angeles June 16 to protest the LA Dodgers honoring the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" drag group during the team's LGBTQ Pride Night at Dodger Stadium.
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Here in the US, Catholicism is for sale

"Provocative pop-ups like Catholics for Catholics are ecclesiastical equivalents of a financial scam," writes Tom Roberts. "Don't give away the password to your spiritual account." 

ByTom Roberts

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'Cowboy Catholic' leads Heritage Foundation plans for 2nd Trump term

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An ecological approach to Holy Week

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Was Jesus vegetarian? New 'Christspiracy' documentary says yes.

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The politics of this Easter season

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The vindictive, unstable Trump should never be given power again

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People protest abortion as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits an abortion clinic in Minneapolis on March 14.

The politics of this Easter season

Guest Voices

"The Christian celebration of Easter is about new life, yet the world's consciousness remains flooded with ideas of death," writes Phyllis Zagano. That includes war and famine, plus euthanasia and abortion, she writes. 

Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality

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The non-politics of March Madness

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Interior view of the Wisconsin Supreme Court courtroom, inside the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison (Wikimedia Commons/Daderot)

Wisconsin Supreme Court makes bad law in religious liberty case

NCR Voices

Severing the motivations of Catholic institutions from the actions they perform is an abstraction that doesn't hold up to scrutiny, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

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Crowds gather at Rome's Colosseum for the nighttime Way of the Cross service on Good Friday, April 7, 2023. The Vatican announced Pope Francis would not attend the event as planned because of the cold. (CNS/Chris Warde-Jones)
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Pope writes meditations for Via Crucis at Colosseum, Vatican says

For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross service at Rome's Colosseum, the head of the Vatican press office said.

Pope Francis stands with cane smiling.
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Vatican releases details of Pope Francis' visit to Venice April 28

Pope Francis' planned visit to Venice will include a Mass in the city's famous St. Mark's Square, a meeting with young people from the archdiocese and a meeting with female detainees at an island prison where the Vatican has set up its pavilion for a major international contemporary art exhibition.

ByCarol Glatz, Catholic News Service
Muslims, Jews and Christians are all praying to the one God now.
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Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: The calendar right now is full of feasts, as Muslims, Jews and Christians all pray to the one God.

ByPat Marrin
Pope Francis seated, vested for Mass, Bishops process with palms in foreground
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Pope Francis skips Palm Sunday homily at start of busy Holy Week that will test his health

Pope Francis decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, avoiding a strenuous speech at the start of a busy Holy Week that will test his increasingly frail health.

ByNicole Winfield, Associated Press

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At UN event, Vatican presses for global ban on child surrogacy

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Pope urges the church to see the face of Christ in migrants

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Georgetown organizes synodal laboratory for lay US church leaders

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The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom

"Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us — our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families and our land," said Wendsler Noise of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area. "We vow to appeal to the Supreme Court." 

A resident plants a banana tree outside his house in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 13, 2023. The Diocese of Kakamega is partaking in the restoration of the degraded Maragoli Forest, located about 248 miles west of Nairobi. (AP photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)
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Faith-based Mother Earth Network aims to restore Maragoli Forest, and hope, in Kenya

Kenyan Catholics and a priest-led environmental group have taken on a forest restoration project in Vihiga County. Fr. Hermann Borg, founder of Mother Earth Network, is known as "Baba Miti," or "The Father of Trees," by locals.

ByShadrack Omuka
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Justice

Catholic, Christian groups share faith-driven plan for 'climate adaptation' with Congress

Catholic and Christian groups joined together March 20 to discuss a faith-driven approach to solving problems associated with climate change in a panel discussion on Capitol Hill.

ByKate Scanlon, OSV News
Three Sisters Sitka Spruce, Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, British Columbia (Dreamstime/Kevin Oke)
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3 paths for Catholics when justice feels unclear

How could I be a seeker of justice, an activist for restoration and embodied love, when so much termed "justice" felt morally murky? Was everything deemed "justice" actually good?

ByElisa Johnston

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Arizona bishop thanks Pope Francis for calling out US impacts on climate change

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Family farmers invaluable to future of agriculture, pope says

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Was Jesus vegetarian? New 'Christspiracy' documentary says yes.

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Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), left, and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) take on Sith Lord Darth Maul (Ray Park) in ''Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.'' (CNS/Lucasfilm)
Book Reviews

'My Life With the Jedi' mines the spirituality of 'Star Wars' and St. Ignatius

Book review: In My Life With the Jedi, Eric Clayton carves out a niche not just for Catholics and geeks, but for anyone looking for a fresh, personal, action-oriented boost to their spiritual life and practice. 

'Love Lies Bleeding' examines the power and pain of affection

"Love Lies Bleeding" explores the violent power of affection, in particular the toll such passions place on our bodies. 

ByZachary Lee
First page of the Book of Genesis (Pixabay/Scottish Guy)
Book Reviews

Marilynne Robinson's 'Reading Genesis' holds a tender, gracious view of God

Book review: Marilynne Robinson's generous vision of God suffuses Reading Genesis, casting her gaze beyond religious platitudes and secular objections and insisting on the fundamental goodness of God and us humans.

ByElizabeth Hamilton
A scene from the film "The Zone of Interest" (Courtesy of A24)

Oscar-winning 'Zone of Interest' exposes Auschwitz through a domestic lens

The Oscar-winning film "The Zone of Interest," in its focus on Rudolf and Hedwig Höss, asks a disturbing and damning question: What was it like to live at Auschwitz if you were part of the camp's machinery of death?

ByChris Herlinger

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Book Reviews

Middle grade books for kids often address deep spiritual needs

Book Reviews

'The Afternoon of Christianity' sets stage for courageous change

Catholic female producer tackles story of St. Maximilian Kolbe

A stained glass window at St. Henry Catholic Church in St. Henry, Ohio, depicts Christ as the good Samaritan. (Wikimedia Commons/Nheyob)

Good Samaritans are everywhere today

We understand God's love better in our time because of the many good Samaritans around us. It is in helping the needy, poor and marginalized that we can lead a holy life, imitating the acts of Jesus' love.

Kovai Meera, a trans woman, blesses Srs. Stella Baltazar and Anita Edwin, members of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, at her residence in Coimbatore, a major city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. (Saji Thomas)

Nuns help trans people gain social acceptance in southern India

Amid lockdown in March 2020, religious sisters began to work with transgender people in need in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The sisters have helped them build self-reliance and gain social acceptance.

BySaji Thomas
Sr. Rosalind Gefre gives a therapeutic massage in 2018 at a St. Paul Saints minor league baseball game.

Q&A with Sr. Rosalind Gefre, who sees massage therapy as healing ministry

"We need to be touched, we need to be hugged and we need to be loved," says Sr. Rosalind Gefre, who from the mid-1990s to 2020 gave free massages at the St. Paul Saints minor league baseball games. 

ByDan Stockman
In 2023, Sr. Emanujila Vishka, far right, visited the Basilian Hungarian community in Mariapocs for the first time. There she met Sr. Imre Margit Agota, second from left, then 91, in person.

Basilian sisters' directory leads to woman of deep faith and kindness

While traveling 15 years ago, Basilian Sr. Emanujila Vishka connected with a Hungarian sister who lived with steadfast faith under communist rule.  

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