Check out these recent articles from around the web: The death penalty’s demise can’t come soon enough by Washington Post: “Several places around the country hand down an astonishing number of death sentences, despite the expense in applying the ultimate punishment, despite the fact that exonerations continue to expose injustice in administering it and despite… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Looking Back at 2015: The Church by Michael Sean Winters: “Something is moving in the Church, and it is not wrong to believe it is the Holy Spirit. That was the story of the Church in 2015, a story of freshness and vigor. It was a… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Mother Teresa, about to be named a saint, felt terrible pain ‘of God not wanting me’ by Fr. James Martin, SJ: “For decades, then, Mother Teresa remained faithful to her original call. Unlike almost any other saint, she carried out her ministry without the benefit of… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Year of Mercy Begins by Michael Sean Winters: “This is what mercy looks like in action: It consoles, it liberates, it gives courage, it brings light, it offers help. (And, its exercise will arouse Jansenists!) Mercy is more than an ethic, more than a dogma.… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pathfinding in Spain by Ashley McKinless: “They offered no checklists to follow, no “life hacks,” no guarantees of certainty about the path ahead. Instead there was the perspective of people who understand themselves as pilgrims, who could tell me how things look from a bit higher… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: For Pope Francis, wisdom comes from the poor by John Allen: “If you want to understand Francis’ agenda, in other words, you don’t need to Google the Catechism of the Catholic Church or the Code of Canon Law. You’d be better off heading to some place… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: An Interview with Anna Keating of The Catholic Catalogue: “Too often I think we assume that a “successful” life for young women needs to follow a script, or that the measure of success is income, or status. According to the current script, the twenties are supposed… Read More Around the Web