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For those in hospice, this Jesuit prayer brought peace in the face of ...
americamagazine.org > faith...Situated within the Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. ... ...I once heard an older Jesuit quip, “I asked God to take my memory…. and he did!”... ...Another Jesuit calls the Suscipe (the word is Latin for “receive”) the hardest prayer in the Spiritual Exercises: Take, Lord, and receive all my... ...She ministered as a hospice chaplain for twelve years. ...

Playwright Annie Baker offers a theology of pain in her new play ...
americamagazine.org > arts-culture...She has never had a play on Broadway, and she never makes annual lists of most-produced plays in the United States.... ...The playwright Annie Baker is hardly a household name, though she won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “The Flick,” a beautifully crafted observational... ...“Infinite Life,” now at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater (in a co-production with London’s National Theatre), is her first new work since 2017’s “... ...But, as she learns in conversation with the other women as well as one man closer to her age, Nelson (Pete Simpson), she is hardly alone in her trials...

Podcast: Meet the Catholic on the front lines of of New York's ...
americamagazine.org > faith...They are joined by Richard Slizeski, the senior vice president for mission at Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens.... ...and Ashley discuss recent revelations about what World War II-era Pope Pius XII knew about the Holocaust as it was occuring, as well as Pope Francis... ...Links from the Show - As New York’s migrant crisis makes headlines, Catholic Charities gets to work...

Olivia Rodrigo's new album 'GUTS' reveals how secular ideals leave ...
americamagazine.org > arts-culture...Olivia Rodrigo, the Disney star turned singer-songwriter, whose debut single, “Drivers License,” was one of the most popular songs of 2021, just... ...Olivia is angry, anxious, vengeful, even hateful, but always honest.... ...Olivia enters womanhood as a rising pop star under the watchful eye of a secular, capitalist and patriarchal America.... ...Jackie Kennedy was a fashion icon who looked impeccably composed while her husband openly cheated on her....

South Africa plagued by crippling power outages and broken promises
americamagazine.org > politics-society...Crippling power cuts in South Africa are devastating the economy and causing significant disruptions to daily life.... ...Over the last few months, many South Africans have endured more frequent and longer power outages.... ...The final report of a judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, headed by the country’s Chief Justice, Judge Raymond Zondo... ...Mbeki followed the South African icon, Nelson Mandela, as the country’s second president of the democratic era....

So fetch: What 'Mean Girls' can teach you about your spiritual life
americamagazine.org > arts-culture...The Catholic Movie Club is a short weekly essay pulling out spiritual themes in our favorite films.... ...Find past Catholic Movie Club selections here. In high school, I probably would have sold my soul to be popular.... ...John Dougherty is the director of mission and ministry at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, Penn.... ...by Regina George (Rachel McAdams). ...

Ecumenical milestone: Vatican and Lutheran officials call for joint study of Augsburg Confession
americamagazine.org > faith...for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Rev.... ...VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During an ecumenical prayer service at the assembly of the Lutheran World Federation, the Vatican’s chief ecumenist and the... ...The assembly, held Sept. 13-19 in Krakow, Poland, is the main governing body of the Lutheran World Federation, which represents 150 Lutheran churches... ...The “Common Word” also noted how Pope Francis, meeting leaders of the federation in 2021, expressed hope that a joint study of the Augsburg Confession...

From a Rabbi to my Catholic friends: We must confront what Pope ...
americamagazine.org > faith...The recent revelation of the existence of a letter from a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII in 1942, informing him of the veracity of the reports that... ...Thus it was when John Paul II issued his famous apology to the Jewish community for the long history of the church’s fraught relations with Jews... ...All of us must contend with the implications of the fact that Pope Pius XII about the death camps--and he did nothing....

'Immigrants are not safe here': I'm ashamed of Staten Island's ...
americamagazine.org > politics-society...John Villa Academy—a Catholic school that closed in 2018 and became the property of the city—Staten Islanders have taken to the streets since late... ...Staten Island, often called the “forgotten borough,” has been making headlines recently.... ...While they are within their First Amendment right to protest, as hundreds of Staten Islanders did in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in... ...Representative Nicole Malliotakis has called for Staten Island to secede in response to the influx of migrants....

Vatican releases full list of synod participants: Chinese bishops in ...
americamagazine.org > faith...Two bishops from mainland China have been given permission by Beijing to participate in the Synod on Synodality, which opens at the Vatican on Oct... ...The secretariat had already published the names of most of the synod participants on July 7, as reported in America.... ...the Anglican communion, the World Methodist Council, the World Communion of Reformed Churches, the World Baptist Alliance, the World Pentecostal... ...Stephen Chow, chosen by the pope, and Bishop Norbert Pu of the Diocese of Chiayi, Taiwan, elected by the Chinese Regional Bishops" Conference (the...