Our divisive national politics left me with a bad impression of the pro-life movement. But meeting practical and kind pro-life activists in college made me reconsider my views.

Pope Francis opened a two-day meeting of almost 200 cardinals this morning, Aug. 29, to discuss “Predicate Evangelium,” the constitution for the reform of the Roman Curia.

Thousands have been affected by ongoing floods in Pakistan, including the destruction of the diocese of Bishop Samson Shukardin.

Celestine V resigned from the papacy in 1294, the last pope to do so voluntarily before Benedict XVI. Francis, in his homily, praised him for this gesture of humility.

Pope Francis has brought the total number of electors to 132, from 69 countries.

A Reflection for the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, by Tim Reidy

A Reflection for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Monica, by Molly Cahill

The pope will create 20 new cardinals on Aug. 27. Sixteen of them are eligible to vote in a papal conclave, and 11 are from or based in countries outside Europe and North America.

Here in deep-blue Manhattan, I know a lot of people who would indeed see “religion” as a slur.

The revival of a 1964 musical is stumbling a bit—but then, the original had its own troubles.

Abel Ferrara is directing the upcoming "Padre Pio," starring Shia LaBeouf, about the stigmatic saint of 20th-century Italy. The film centers itself around the rise of fascism in Italy.

Although Pope Francis repeatedly has spoken out on behalf of the Ukrainian people, this was not the first time Ukrainian officials have been upset with Pope Francis for what they see as equating the actions of the aggressor with the victim.

A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Psychedelics have been seen as far worse than alcohol and cigarettes, but are they really?

Bad Bunny’s allusions to God, astrology and spiritism speak to young people who find themselves bored with middle-of-the-road secularism.

For critics of the first Latin American pope, Francis’ recent expression of concern about the crackdown on Catholics in Nicaragua was too little too late.

By calling that time or series of not great choices an “era,” you recontextualize that experience. It is something that happened at a point or during a period in time that is now, emphasis added, over.

The pope told the patriarch that “we are not clerics of the state, we cannot use the language of politics, but of Jesus.”