Christ’s Passion in Matthew and the psychology of death
A Homily for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Terrance Klein
The High Ethic of Love
March 29, 2026, Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion: This Sunday’s Gospel of the Passion will provide our first glance at the tragedy that followed, one that will take place on yet a different mount, Calvary.
Dear James Talarico: No, the Annunciation does not justify abortion
Some traditions are too sacred to be politicized. The Annunciation is one of them.
Jesuit priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees as border dynamics change
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Strassburger, S.J., has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants.
Pope Leo taps Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert
Pope Leo XIV has filled one of the most important Vatican vacancies by tapping Bishop Anthony Randazzo, an Australian church lawyer, to serve as the Holy See’s chief legal expert.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis
“Archbishop Fulton Sheen was one of the greatest voices of evangelization in the Church and the world in the 20th century,” Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria said.
Report refutes abuse cover-up claims against Pope John Paul II as leader of Krákow archdiocese
“Our research shows that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla did not transfer priests from parish to parish when he learned of their criminal activities, but he took quick action, and some of his decisions were above-standard for the time,” the March 13 report’s lead said.
Where is God trying to interrupt us today?
A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
‘Your homework is to tell someone you love them today’: Colman McCarthy’s lessons in peace
Colman McCarthy, who died on Feb. 27 at the age of 87, had a well-deserved reputation for seeking out the underdogs in life—as well as for his determined lifelong stands against war, capital punishment, homelessness and the other seamy sides of contemporary capitalism.
On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Oscar Romero
Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in the United States, speaking against war-making and mass deportation.
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