In a wide-ranging interview with the Reuters news agency, Pope Francis condemned abortion, dismissed the idea that he’s preparing to resign and said he still hopes to be able to visit Russia and Ukraine in the fall.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

Cardinal Claudio Hummes was one of Brazil’s main religious leaders and a strong advocate for the poor.

A Reflection for the Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Keara Hanlon.

A Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Sarah Vincent

A Reflection for the Saturday of the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time, by Doug Girardot

I’ve been feeling so down on the state of affairs in this nation that I’ve started to wonder if I can even celebrate the Fourth of July this year without feeling painfully disingenuous. So I looked to my colleagues for hope.

President Joe Biden will award the nation’s highest civilian honor to a Catholic sister next week.

Cardinal-designate McElroy told reporters on May 31 that he believed the pope selected him because he wanted a cardinal on the U.S. West Coast and because of his support for the pope’s pastoral and ecclesial priorities.

"Russian Doll" is kind of a Jewish "Fleabag" meets time travel, a mind-bending exploration of trauma that reads like an exercise in self-therapy.

When asked if he felt he had changed during his papacy, the pope said he was told by several people “that things that were dormant in my personality came to the surface; that I became more merciful.”

A reflection for the Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle speaks with Sant’Egidio’s Elizabeth Boyle about the lay group’s efforts to foster peace and friendship in South Sudan.

The present age of polarization has unleashed the most ferocious forces, which seem hellbent on creating a narrow unity only through cynical division.

Kaya Oakes offers reflections on what it means to live as a woman today. This meaning grappling with growing older in a society and a church that both continue to prize feminine youth, fecundity and docility above all else.

Readable, well researched and carefully documented, 'Saving Yellowstone' does not get bogged down in minutiae in its history of the park.

In 'The Body Scout,' Lincoln Michel explores the limits of what it means to be human through a future in which companies tempt consumers with upgrades—new arms, organs and more.

In his new 10-story collection, Roddy Doyle tells stories of catastrophes—unemployment, a deadly storm and Covid-19—and their socioeconomic and psychological fallout on Irish families.

Many readers disagreed with the position of the editorial board of America magazine after it voiced its support for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.