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Let us thank Mary and Martha, whose feast days are celebrated on July 29, for modeling the significance of hospitality and discipleship for all Christians. @HeidiSchlumpf reflects on the readings for the sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Birthing a resistance is morally fraught work, done by flawed people. Not every choice is good. Not every hero is admirable. But Andor reminds us that the price of inaction is far greater—for society, and for the soul—than taking a stand.

But if there is one thing that having neurodivergent kids has taught me about parenting, it’s that I am a guide, not a dictator. I can teach them, listen to them, and be a model, but I will never be able to control them.

Masculinity is less about a set of fixed attributes than about an overarching identity, whose meaning and aesthetics may vary between communities, but which is often connected with ideas about courage, strength, hard work, leadership, and authority.

Las Casas’ conviction that Spain’s treatment of Indigenous people was a sin led to action. He freed the enslaved people who worked his land, gave back the land to the native inhabitants, and preached vehemently that the other colonists should do likewise.

The Korean concept of "han"—the collective trauma of those who suffer unjustly—can be extended beyond human suffering to encompass the pain of all creation, writes @Gracejisunkim.

Catholics’ relationship with food and how it can change one’s body ties with our theology of incarnation and the Eucharist. An inability to see Jesus in a fat body results from embracing cultural norms that have nothing to do with Catholicism.

This week on Just Politics, @o_oaxaca, senior government relations advocate for immigration with NETWORK, joins hosts @colin_mtz_largo and @Eilis_ann to discuss the escalating immigration crisis facing communities nationwide.

Human beings are social creatures who live in a shared reality, and we must have some consensus on the fundamentals of that reality. If we choose to only accept interpretations that feed our preconceived biases, we are not engaged in truth-telling.

To continue Pope Francis’ ministry, theology must not only accompany but be accountable to those on the margins. Our theology and the questions investigated must be accountable to the joys and hopes, grief and anxiety of those on the peripheries.

RT @jordandenari: My reflection on Francis' legacy of Muslim-Christian dialogue, and how it inspired and affirmed my own vocation.

This is a film that fuses several genres. The thread that holds it together is music in general, the emancipatory spaces created by American Black music, and the power of the blues specifically.

The Catholic social tradition tells us to help those who are suffering—do not leave them by the side of the road. When Jesus answers the question about “who is my neighbor?” he responds with the story of the Good Samaritan.

Francis embarked on his own adventure of dialogue during his 12 years as pope, traveling to many Muslim-majority countries, meeting with countless leaders and ordinary people, visiting mosques, and issuing major declarations alongside his Muslim friends.

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These eight holy men from Catholic history challenge the assumption that masculinity must be defined by domination, exclusion, or rigidity.

The Good Samaritan is the only one in Jesus’ story who is honoring the commandment written not just on stone tablets or in a book in the clouds, but on our hearts. Renée Roden reflects on the readings for the fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

In a society that’s attacking human dignity, Christian philanthropy means following Jesus’ example, choosing radical self-gift, to free others. It means participating in the divine economy rather than this world’s financial system.

Despite the level of unease in El Paso, Texas, as the threat of ICE roundups and neighbors disappearing becomes more commonplace, a very powerful force has not disappeared in this border city: The faith and courage of this community.