A Reflection for Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis

What the church teaches about drugs and intoxication? How should Christians respond to psychedelic drugs being used in therapeutic settings?

Colleen and Gerry unpack the Synod on Synodality's working document and the clues it provides about the synod’s first global meeting in October.

When will the day come when we won’t see a headline about the church reluctantly admitting that they have spent several decades protecting yet another predator and feeding yet more victims into the flames?

Pope Francis has declared venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the first Catholic order of African American nuns, and Sister Lúcia dos Santos, one of the children who saw the Fátima vision.

With rapid advances in medicine and sweeping changes in the U.S. health care landscape, some are suggesting that the U.S. bishops’ Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services needs a complete overhaul.

There are deep questions that still need attention to understand how Father Rupnik’s abuses went unchecked for nearly three decades and to determine what further systemic reforms beyond his dismissal are necessary.

Pope Francis says he's still feeling the effects of anesthesia from abdominal surgery two weeks ago and that his breathing ‘isn't good.’

In the still-unsolved case of Emanuela Orlandi, which inspired the "Vatican Girl" Netflix show, Vatican officials said that new evidence reveals investigative leads to be studied.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Cecilia González-Andrieu

How the international media covers the migration tragedy unfolding in the Atlantic in comparison to coverage of the Titan tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea seems a valid question to probe.

Is it my role to serve as witness to the death of something? Or should I be forging ahead to create something new?

A Homily for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Terrance Klein

America spoke with Dr. Bruchalski in May to discuss the future of the pro-life movement after the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, by James T. Keane

The synod’s working document, released at the Vatican on June 20, highlights three priorities for building a synodal church: communion, mission and participation.

At the end of 2022, according to the United Nations, more than 108 million people worldwide “were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.” The figure represents an increase of almost 20 million people over 2021.

Was Cormac McCarthy our greatest American novelist? Or did he take his readers to darker places than many of them wanted to go?

More U.S. Protestants are satisfied with the sermons and music they hear at services than Catholics, according to a Pew Research study. Catholics also feel less connected to their fellow congregants.