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Inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola made this treated plywood casket for the Rev. Billy Graham in 2006, at the request of Rev. Graham's son, Franklin. Rev. Graham, who died Feb. 21, led ministries that supported the construction of two chapels at the country's largest maximum security prison. The inmates craft caskets for fellow prisoners who die. Funeral services for Rev. Graham were scheduled for March 2. (CNS photo/courtesy BillGraham.org)

Inmates at Louisiana prison built casket for Billy Graham

Peter Finney Jr.
February 24, 2018
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Inmates at a Louisiana prison built coffins, including the one for the Rev. Billy Graham, after an incident in 1995 when the body of a fellow inmate fell through the bottom of a makeshift coffin.

President Donald Trump bows his head during a prayer as he sits between Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors and students Julia Cordover and Carson Abt Feb. 21 at the White House. Trump hosted the listening session with high school students. families and teachers to discuss school safety in the wake of a mass shooting a week earlier at the school in Parkland, Fla. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

With growing student activism on gun violence, will lawmakers act?

Dennis Sadowski
February 23, 2018
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This year 34 mass shootings, resulting in 60 deaths and 144 injuries, have been recorded by the online site Gun Violence Archive.

A South Sudanese girl is seen at the Nguenyyiel refugee camp in Gambella, Ethiopia, in late October. Pope Francis called for an international day of prayer and fasting for peace to be observed Feb. 23. (CNS photo/Tiksa Negeri, Reuters) See BISHOPS-EUROPE-AFRICA-SUMMIT Nov. 28, 2017.

Pope asks for a Feb. 23 World Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace

Catholic Review Staff
February 22, 2018
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Pope Francis is asking Catholics around the world to observe a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace on Friday, Feb. 23.

Pope Paul VI is pictured in this undated photo. Pope Paul, who served as pope from 1963-1978, was declared blessed by Pope Francis Oct. 19, 2014. He is most remembered for his 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae," which affirmed the church's teaching against artificial contraception. (CNS photo/Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)

Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation

George Weigel
February 22, 2018
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Lent calls us to embrace the humility of the Gospel publican and confess that we have sinned, knowing that God’s mercy can heal what is broken in us if we cooperate with his grace. 

A painting at the Oblate Sisters of Providence motherhouse in Baltimore depicts Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Catholic order of African-American nuns. (CR file)

The Oblate Sisters of Providence: An American story

Diane Batts Morrow
February 22, 2018
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In responding to the call of their teaching mission, the Oblate Sisters nurtured the minds and souls of black folk, the very elements of black existence white society routinely denied.

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