Father Joshua Whitfield on his vocation as a husband, father and priest, and why most Catholic homilies are just plain awful.

Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former editor of ‘America’ who died April 6.

As Pope Francis apologizes for abuses at Catholic boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for a reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.

A Reflection for the Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Jim Keane

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Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine.”

Pope Francis hopes to visit Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan in July, with possible trips to Ukraine and Lebanon before that. But this past weekend, the pope struggled to move around during his trip to Malta.

Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday.

Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac said the fetuses are from a box of medical waste they got from the driver of a medical waste truck at an abortion clinic, and they claimed the fetuses looked like they were from late-stage abortions.

I am the happiest kid near the diamond.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Molly Cahill

Perhaps we need to go slower with shame. It is too powerful a tool to wield carelessly.

Drew Christiansen, S.J., who died today at the Jesuit community in Georgetown University, where he lived, was a soft-spoken scholar who took on one of the most difficult jobs ever faced by an American Jesuit.

Wahlberg recently called his new film, “Father Stu,” the “most important movie I’ve ever done” and “the best movie I’ve ever been a part of.”

America mourns the loss of Drew Christiansen, S.J., a noted scholar and former editor in chief of the magazine.

It’s time for baseball season, and that means games that are too long, teams that aren’t competitive and the exploitation of minor league players. Blame the major leagues and their monopoly status.

Commenting on his recent trip to Malta in his Wednesday audience, Pope Francis spoke about migration and evangelization, especially in a time of war.

The world is witnessing “ever-more horrendous acts of cruelty done against civilians, unarmed women and children, whose innocent blood cries out to heaven and implores, ‘End this war.’”

A Reflection for the Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.