New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine joins the “Jesuitical” podcast to explain why Christians must understand Jesus within his Jewish context.

“Terce: A Practical Breviary” doesn’t feel all that far from a worship experience—at least, what an ideal worship experience might be.

Catholic Movie Club: Institutions don’t change easily.

Pope Francis sought to clarify the declaration on blessings of couples in “irregular situations” in his address today to the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Following Georgetown University's efforts to acknowledge and amend its history with slavery, Loyola University Maryland officially published a report detailing its own connections to slavery.

Many Ugandan Catholics oppose Pope Francis' approval of same-sex blessings. LGBTQ Ugandans have fled to neighboring countries to escape homophobia.

A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy

A Reflection for Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops, by Ashley McKinless

Alabama plans to put an industrial-grade respirator mask over Mr. Smith’s face and replace his breathing air with pure nitrogen gas, causing him to die from lack of oxygen. He will not be rendered unconscious before the procedure begins.

Kenneth Eugene Smith will face execution by the state of Alabama tonight. I pray that God may grant him peace.

Raised Christian and the daughter of an Israeli Jew, I have had to expand my worldview to learn about Palestinian history. It is important for President Biden to also acknowledge the suffering in Gaza.

Jesuit education instills values of empathy and service. Charles Osgood didn’t miss that class: Those values ran deep and long in him.

The victim said he was sexually abused over a six-year period despite having told the rector that an older student was “bothering” him.

A Reflection for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle, by Colleen Dulle

Colleen and Gerry also parse the pope’s comments on declining birth rates in Italy and address the politicization of the issue and the pope’s call for global economic reforms that promote and support the well-being of young families.

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

The Latin Mass organizers said they wanted to show that, rather than threats to national security, they are instead “liturgy nerds” who are often apolitical.

When applied to political leaders, the language of “inevitability” and “invincibility” is profoundly dangerous. It also violates the teaching of the the Gospel that God has given us free will.

RTÉ aired two documentaries in January looking at the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland: “The Last Priests in Ireland” and “The Last Nuns in Ireland.” But signs of hope can still be discerned amid the decline after years of church turbulence.