While the Diocese of Providence flies relatively under the radar, it gained national attention in recent years in part because of the outspokenness of its outgoing bishop, Thomas Tobin.

“She would be happy about having a ferry named after her,” said Robert Steed, a former Catholic Worker and editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper, adding, “maybe even more so than being canonized.”

A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Jill Rice

At his coronation, King Charles will reaffirm his Protestant identity, and while he has included other faiths in the ceremony, Catholics in Britain wish for more inclusion, especially given the country's past conflicts with them.

“I’m available to do anything,” Pope Francis said. “There’s a mission that’s not public that’s underway; when it’s public I’ll talk about it.”

To be Christian is to be open and welcoming to others, Pope Francis said as he celebrated Mass outside Hungary's Parliament building.

Francis' visit to Hungary is bringing him as close as he's come to the front lines of the war.

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, by Cecilia González-Andrieu

In this week's episode of Inside the Vatican, Gerry and Ricardo discuss women being able to vote in the synod, the pope's visit to Hungary and Archbishop Paglia's statement about euthanasia.

A ruling against the DACA program could mean that after years of personal and civic struggle, Dreamers would once again face the possibility of deportation.

If anyone asked me what was the one thing they could do to start off on a better path spiritually, I would recommend resolving to make a morning offering.

The movement for restoring women to the diaconate is steeped in love and faith, not activism or anger. It is not just a “women’s issue” but a human issue.

In mid-century America, nuns and sisters were writing poems, and publishing them in the nation’s finest publications.

Sister Boniface reminds me of so many great women’s religious that I have had the good fortune of knowing—enormously competent, of deep integrity and undaunted in their commitment to helping people.

What is the Catholic Church’s approach to technology, and what do A.I. and ChatGPT have in store for it?

A Reflection for Friday of the Third Week of Easter, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

Mentioning some areas of common ground with Victor Orbán’s government, Pope Francis described as “ideological colonization” efforts to promote acceptance across Europe of “so-called gender theory.”

St. Peter Canisius deserves remembrance as more than a mere embodiment of 16th-century Counter-Reformation thought.

To those who are already exhausted by the all-A.I., all-the-time reporting of 2023, have no fear: “Mrs. Davis” is not a show about A.I., not really.

Pope Francis is expected to encourage solidarity in the face of the ever greater humanitarian crisis arising from the war in Ukraine and to appeal for an end to the war.