Listen to this story and more on our podcast, Here & Now Anytime. Ten years after his celebrated “Southern Reach” trilogy, novelist Jeff VanderMeer is out with a surprise prequel. “Absolution” tells ...

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Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, has said that the coronavirus pandemic may justify the use of general absolution, in extraordinary circumstances, for Catholics unable to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments and individuals to operate as if every day brings with it a new contingency plan. The Catholic Church is no different, in a sense, at least when it comes ...

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Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel Absolution works as both a prequel and a sequel to his “Southern Reach trilogy” — appropriate, considering the slippy, surreal lineage of Annihilation, Authority, and ...