5+ hour, 35+ min ago  (806+ words) I watch my toddler pore over her children's Bible, tracing the illustrations with her chubby finger and retelling herself the stories in her sweet, sing-song voice. My heart aches remembering her question from the day before: "Mommy, where are all…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (222+ words) A Reflection for Wednesday of the First Week of Lent Jonah began his journey through the city,and had gone but a single day's walk announcing,Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,when the people of Nineveh believed…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (612+ words) A Homily for Ash WednesdayReadings: Joel 2:12-18" 2 Corinthians 5:206:2 " Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Have you ever wished that you could be baptized again? It is an understandable desire, especially when we seek to renew ourselves and regain the path. Besides birth itself, nothing bespeaks new…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (472+ words) Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship....

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1044+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " The Religious Liberty Commission held its fifth hearing " with some tense exchanges " to examine a rise in antisemitism Feb. 9, the same day a lawsuit was filed challenging the committee's creation as unlawful. In the hearing, which took…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (342+ words) Pope Leo XIV called for an end to all antisemitism, prejudice, oppression and persecution worldwide. "I renew my appeal to the community of nations always to remain vigilant so that the horror of genocide never again befall any people and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (480+ words) The resurgence of antisemitism on the American right has of late often been reduced to a matter of strategy. Is JD Vance doing what he needs to do to win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination? Is Donald Trump a hypocrite? Has…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (698+ words) The beach lies less than four miles from the heart of Sydney. In that half-mile crescent of gold, the city's restless energy dissipates. A crowd gathers there on Sunday evening for a minute of silence to mark one week since…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (176+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) " Condemning the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney, Pope Leo XIV said, "Enough with these forms of antisemitic violence! We must eradicate hatred from our hearts." The pope prayed for "the victims of the terrorist massacre…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (833+ words) Farrar, Straus & Giroux Kreitner's rabbinical triptych both illustrates his claim that, in the mid-19th century, there was no one correct Jewish position on slavery and renders unsurprising the fact that slave labor built America's oldest surviving synagogue building, the same building…...