Power of the Word Project

Remembering Rerum Novarum with this postage stamp from 1991.

Holy Mass Online - Bible Readings and Video : Friday, August 29, 2025 - #Eucharist - Virtual Catholic Church catholicnewsworld.com/2025/08/holy...

Oggi su Repubblica in edicola un mio commento sul passaggio di testimone tra #PapaFrancesco e #PapaLeone. Il senso della parola “inquietudine”.

John D. Caputo: johndcaputo.com

Pope Leo XIV speaks against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’ New leader of the Catholic Church says AI poses challenge to humankind and dignity of workers

Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’

Promotional graphic for a dialogue titled “Migration, Refugee Resettlement, and Mass Deportation: Moral, Human, and Policy Choices.” The event will be on Wednesday, February 12 at 6pm EST at Georgetown University’s ICC Auditorium and livestreamed. Speakers: Kristie De Peña (Niskanen Center), Aleja Hertzler-McCain (Religion News Service), Beatriz Ortiz (Immigration attorney), Tim Schultz (1st Amendment Partnership), Bishop Mark Seitz (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration).

1/3 Pope Francis has written a letter to the U.S. bishops denouncing the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans: “I exhort...all men and women of goodwill not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters...”

Commonweal in conversation: Join Cristina Lledo Gomez and Mollie Wilson O'Reilly on February 26 for a discussion about Catholicism, mothering, and maternity.

RSVP now!
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Mazel tov @simchagross.bsky.social !!! www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/babylon...

Ahead of Saturday's feast day, here's The conversion of St Paul on the way to Damascus & his baptism from a Picture Bible (1190) now held in The National Library of the Netherlands.

Happy new year!

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday.

A wonderful story of rebirth with beautiful images.
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The December issue is here! Feat.
- Jon Malesic on art and attention
- James Chappel on W. H. Auden
- Michael Peppard on Marian art
- The Editors on Trump's return to the White House
- Gerald W. Schlabach on honorable surrender
& more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2024-...

Viaggio Apostolico di #PapaFrancesco ad #Ajaccio per la conclusione del Congresso “La religiosité populaire en
Méditerranée” (15 dicembre 2024)

Accreting Opinions Wilfrid Sheed's recently reissued novel documents life at a sneakily familiar opinion magazine.

"'There has never been a cult of personality at Commonweal,' Sheed wrote in a reflection for the magazine, 'for which, on the whole, the Lord be thanked and the saints be praised.'"

Tony Domestico considers a reissued novel by the great Wilfrid Sheed:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/accreting-op...

Happy Feast of St. Cecilia, an early Roman martyr and patron saint of musicians. This is her original tomb, in the Catacombs of St. Callixtus, outside of Rome. (Her remains are now in the Basilica of St. Cecelia). Happy Feast to all musicians, music ministers, and to St. Cecelia's Parish in Boston.

Antonio Spadaro on Matteo Ricci SJ, one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Missions, and a potential source for rethinking a polarized international politics through multilateralism and relationship.

The great Martin Scorsese on Faith ahead of his new show 'The Saints': nation.foxnews.com/watch/2daf45...

Images from the wonderful Sapienza Università di Roma, where colleagues hosted our last conference, 'The Dramatised Word' (16-20 September 2024) www.powerofthewordproject.com/powerofthewo...

'"Like a Thorn in the Heart": Literature, Theology and Education': the next PotW Project event is on 12 April 2025 in collaboration with the Heythrop Institute at the London Jesuit Centre. Our title is from Pope Francis' 'The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination'. shorturl.at/TcdCD

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