Witnessing the level and scale of violence throughout these past days, I still can’t understand its source—violence without reason, senseless cruelty.

A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent, by Valerie Schultz

Sister Adela Orea finally got a clean water source for her hospital in Chiapas, Mexico. But should it take a tenacious sister and years of persistence for a health care facility to get safe water?

Pope Francis telephoned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the president addressed the Italian parliament via video link March 22.

This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria discusses the racism underpinning the negative reaction to President Biden’s announcement that his Supreme Court nominee would be a Black woman.

Sigrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928, contributed numerous articles to America, including this 1942 essay on Catholic writers.

Some commentators have called this  “revolutionary,” but others say it has deep roots in church tradition.

After nine years, Pope Francis has unveiled a major reform of the Vatican Curia—though its emphases may sound familiar.

More about the Christians of Iraqi-Kurdistan and Nineveh than Pope Francis, the film highlights their gratitude by showing why it was so important to them that he visit Iraq.

The war is not about Russia capturing Ukraine; it is about Russia challenging the Western world, which Mr. Putin and Patriarch Kirill both regard as evil.

A Reflection for the Monday of the Third Week of Lent, by Ashley McKinless.

“I invite every community and every one of the faithful to join with me next Friday, March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation, in making this solemn act of consecration of humanity.”

Imagine the tension in the room as a known sinner walks in and starts weeping at Jesus' feet.

“Praedicate Evangelium” allows for greater involvement of lay men and women in church governance and assigns the protection of minors a central place in the Curia’s structure. 

Nine years after taking office, Pope Francis promulgated his constitution reforming the Roman Curia, a project he began with his international College of Cardinals shortly after taking office in 2013.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Zac Davis

The first Protestant ever to be employed as an editor by L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily newspaper, has published a 367-page book on the ecumenical journey of the first Latin American pope.

As a form of solidarity with all living in Ukraine and a prayer for their rescue, here is a form of the Stations of the Cross built from the stories of Ukrainians suffering from the violence of Russia’s invasion.

A small Jesuit school—Saint Peter’s University of Jersey City, N.J.—upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.