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Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael J. O'Loughlin
FaithFeatures
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Pope Francis has spoken regularly about the devil and has reminded us that the devil is not simply a pop-culture trope.
Same-sex couples take part in a public blessing ceremony in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Several Catholic priests held a ceremony blessing same-sex and also re-married couples outside Cologne Cathedral in a protest against the city's archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
FaithNews Analysis
Michael J. O’Loughlin
When Catholic same-sex couples seek a blessing from a priest, it often flows from a deep faith in God.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is pictured on Capitol Hill in Washington May 1, 2019. Feinstein, who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the "Year of the Woman" and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, died Sept. 28, 2023, at age 90. (OSV News photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, released a lengthy statement on Thursday, praising the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s “civility.”
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Maybe the crisis of disbelief in the Eucharist is not as dire as previously thought.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist, by Michael J. O’Loughlin
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A small Catholic parish recently invited parishioners, neighbors and tourists to relive the wedding of John F. Kennedy and Jaqueline Bouvier, on what would have been the couple’s 70th anniversary this month.
FaithInterviews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“Dear, Alana” chronicles Ms. Chen’s involvement in her Boulder, Colo., Catholic community—and with therapy that seemed to use some ideas common in conversion therapy.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael J. O’Loughlin
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“I’m an African American woman in a space that is doing the kind of work that…Christ is calling us to do,” Cynthia Bailey Manns, who will participate in the Synod on Synodality as a voting member in October, said in an interview.