David Dault

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Heidi Schlumpf |Daniel P. Horan |David Dault |Thomas Reese

Pope Leo XIV waves as he rides the popemobile around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025, ahead of his second weekly general audience. (CNS/Lola Gomez) Heidi Schlumpf, Daniel P. Horan, and David Dault gather for a special episode of "The Francis Effect" podcast to look at the first weeks of the papacy of Pope Leo XIV. How do I listen? Click the "play" button at the top of the page to start the show.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Heidi Schlumpf |Daniel P. Horan |David Dault

In this episode of "The Francis Effect" podcast, National Catholic Reporter senior correspondent Heidi Schlumpf, columnist Daniel Horan and David Dault discuss the economic, global and social effects of the Trump administration's use of tariffs as a kind of "economic weapon." They also talk about preaching on creation, including how those at the pulpit can speak about the ongoing climate crisis, and why they should.

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

They “stood at a distance, watching.” This detail in Luke’s Gospel haunts me: how Jesus’ friends and followers, including the women who have journeyed with him from Galilee, can do nothing but witness his suffering from afar. The sense of powerlessness they must feel, maybe even shame, is something we all have perhaps experienced at one moment or another. Today, we have more access than ever to witness atrocities. What does one do with such powerlessness?

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Abyssinian Baptist Church by a onetime candidate to be the historic Harlem church’s senior pastor, the sole female candidate among finalists for the role. Eboni Marshall Turman, an associate professor at Yale Divinity School, filed the complaint in 2023.

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “God’s Grandeur,” which notes a rejuvenating spirit infusing the world—“nature is never spent; / There lives the dearest freshness deep down things”—as well as Jesuit theologian and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s phrase “the breathing together of all things.” The anthology subtitle’s...