Birth and death bookend our temporal experience, but we are called to fill everything between them with love and mercy and decency, not cling to fantasies of a fraudulent eternity.

Actor Shia LaBeouf portrays St. Pio of Pietrelcina in the new drama “Padre Pio,” which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and will be released in U.S. theaters and on demand June 2.

The body of Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster of the Most Holy Rosary was found to be incorruptible. She founded an interracial, contemplative Benedictine community that bridged racial divides in the Church.

This week, Jesuitical is joined by Sister Donna Dodge, the president of the Sisters of Charity of New York, which recently decided to embark on a “path to completion.”

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, by Ashley McKinless

While in Portugal, Pope Francis plans to visit Fátima, the site of a recognized Marian apparition. Gerry and Colleen explain how the “secrets of Fátima” revealed there relate to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

While religious groups have been at the forefront of the movement to divest from fossil fuels, the campaign to divest from mining is moving more slowly.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Kevin Jackson

Bishop Joseph Strickland recently accused Pope Francis of “undermining the Deposit of Faith.” It remains unknown whether Francis will publicly respond but past cases provide a clue of how the pope will approach this latest challenge.

Climate change activists faced trial at the Vatican on Wednesday (May 24) on vandalism charges for gluing themselves to the statue of “Laocoön and His Sons” in the Vatican Museums last summer.

How do we know who the Holy Spirit is? We do not hear the Spirit speak in the same way that God the Father or God the Son have spoken, yet its presence is equally here.

Ron DeSantis has signaled that he will make Florida’s restrictive immigration policies a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. He is ignoring the fact that our nation relies on immigrant labor.

Last week, the Dodgers announced that they would honor what you might call “drag nuns” during their Pride Night on June 16, a common promotional event at many Major League ballparks during the month of June.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Molly Cahill

I have heard it said that if the public could see the physical images of violence after a shooting, perhaps we would all be more fervent in our demand for radical change. I have seen it. Must I make you look, too?

In their quest to eliminate any threat to their operations drug cartels have killed journalists, environmental activists and priests, in addition to any average citizens caught in their way.

St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon faced persecution as the first Korean priest. Yet he continued to spread the Gospel and evangelize the people of his nation.

A worker’s advocate, feminist leader and civil rights proponent whose work continues today at the age of 93, Dolores Huerta was an under-recognized leader.

Ron DeSantis was raised Catholic, but he and and his wife, Casey, rarely discuss the particularities of their religious beliefs in public.