On his visit to Marseille last week, Pope Francis decried the “fanaticism of indifference” on the plight of migrants who risk their lives—and all too often lose them—in the attempt to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.

A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle

Advocacy groups, including the U.S. bishops conference, have cautioned against allowing a government shutdown before the deadline on Sept. 30, urging lawmakers to come to an agreement and keep the government open.

High school is the perfect time to engage teenagers.

As the church approaches the Synod on Synodality, Synod delegate Iván Montelongo explains how he integrates the spirit of Synodality into his preaching—all while keeping his homilies short and sweet.

The world and the Catholic Church today need to take a leap forward “in faith, charity and hope,” Pope Francis said in his homily at a late afternoon Mass in Marseille’s open-air stadium.

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest

Where’s the modern-day Catholic labor priest?

A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

“The exploitation of migrants is criminal” as is their detention, Pope Francis told reporters in August, and “I am going to Marseille for this.”

How Catholic Charities’ mission and Catholic identity is informing their work on the ground.

Olivia Rodrigo’s childhood naïveté meets harsh reality in ‘GUTS’.

For theater fans, the arrival of a new Annie Baker play is cause for celebration.

Seeing the pope every five years is not enough.

Popularity. Temptation. Vanity. Wearing Pink on Wednesdays.

In a pastoral letter, titled “All Citizens to Reclaim the Dream,” the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference encouraged South Africans not to lose hope.

The hardest prayer in St. Ignatius’s spiritual exercises eventually brought peace to the dying.

After this letter, all of us must contend with the implications of the fact that he knew about the death camps—and he did nothing.

To this day, my best friends are people I grew up with on Staten Island. But I am ashamed of how some members of my community have reacted to the recent arrival of migrants.

The Catholic Church excommunicated Luther. The Lutheran Augsburg Confession calls the papacy the ‘anti-Christ.’ But both sides are hopeful about the future of Christian unity.