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Of course, he’s not really disappearing, other than from CBS, thanks to some “business reasons” (and if you buy that, I have a few New York City-area bridges for sale). But this week marks the end of Stephen Colbert’s long-running late-night prominence, with the final episode of “The Late Show” on Thursday. It also marks the end of at least one venue for one of the most effective public Catholics in the world.
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As the country absorbs the news of three people shot to death at the Islamic Center of San Diego, we offer our prayers and condolences to the grief-stricken. To our Muslim friends, we grieve that such a horror could take place in one of your houses of prayer. That the perpetrators could be motivated to take innocent life before killing themselves raises profound moral questions for us all.
In church circles, you’ll find a kind of division over the passages from John’s Gospel that predominate in the readings after Easter Sunday. I’m not speaking about the resurrection stories like the risen Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene or the risen One preparing breakfast for the disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but something else. Many of the daily Gospel readings are taken from what is called Jesus’ “Farewell Discourse,” the extended speech that Jesus gives to the disciples in the Upper Room after the Last Supper, on the night before his Crucifixion.
When CBS announced the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last summer, they said it was “purely a financial decision” and cited declining ad revenue, but the timing was more than suspicious. Earlier that month, CBS’s parent company, Paramount, had settled a $16 million lawsuit from President Donald Trump, who alleged deceptively positive editing of a 60 Minutes interview with his 2024 election opponent Kamala Harris. The settlement came as Paramount was waiting for federal approval of a merger with a company owned by a major Trump supporter. “A big, fat bribe” is how Colbert described the settlement in his monologue. Three days later, the show got the ax. Its final episode will air May 21.
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, it should reflect on how the American understanding of equality is grounded in the belief that all people are equally children of God, Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, said May 17 at a prayer rally on the National Mall.
“As we reflect on our history, from the founding through the trials of the Civil War to the struggle for civil rights, we can see this consistent thread, the conviction that human dignity, equality, rights, freedom, and the rule of law are all grounded in God,” he said.
Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical on May 15, a document on the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, the Vatican announced today. His signature came on the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s famous encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” which came in response to the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution and is considered the beginning of the church’s modern social teaching.
