Most of my most meaningful meals have been prepared by friends born outside of the United States and who made a courageous journey to be here.

A public toilet cleaner who lives alone, Hirayama has discovered deep meaning and beauty in a life that others would demean or reject.

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s life and loves.

This week on a live recording of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Bishop Kevin Sweeney of Paterson, N.J., about his spiritual journey as a young priest on 9/11 and becoming a bishop during the Covid-19 pandemic.

I am ashamed to say it, but Trump’s claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets reminds me so much of the way Haitians are treated in my home country, the Dominican Republic.

Juan López was gunned down as he was leaving Mass by a still unidentified assassin, becoming the latest casualty among defenders of creation and Indigenous and human rights in Honduras.

If we are to be truly pro-life, we must advocate for both with equal fervor.

After former president Donald Trump amplified unsubstantiated claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, the state’s bishops called for solidarity with ‘our Haitian brothers and sisters.’

The Vatican has approved the promotion of devotion to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje but did not make any declaration on the alleged supernatural character of the Marian apparitions there.

Father James Martin responds to the five most common reasons for opposing L.G.B.T.Q. issues that he’s heard from synod delegates and church leaders from around the world.

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, by Carl DeBarbrie

On the flight back to Rome, Pope Francis criticized the U.S. presidential candidates, labeling Kamala Harris’s views on abortion and Donald Trump’s migration policies as “both against life.”

Shelters have opened in northern Lebanon to provide what everyone hopes will be a temporary lodging for the displaced Christian families from the new war zone along the border with Israel.

A Homily for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

In my search for good music and celebration, I found Catholicism and a yearning for community.

The next time former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will sit between them as host and Catholic comic Jim Gaffigan will serve as MC.

John Fante's fiction depicted Los Angeles through a penetrating, panoramic gaze—and anticipated the rise of the Beats in American literature.

A Sunday school class reveals how deeply all students have been affected by mass shooting incidents and constant “active shooter drills.”

The people of Indonesia believe in gotong royong, literally, “joint bearing of burdens,” carrying something together, shoulder-to-shoulder. This ethos was lived to its fullest in the days of this holy visit.