Elizabeth Ann Seton has only officially been a saint for 49 years, a blink of an eye in the timeline of the church. But in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States, she is a towering figure.

Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.

His Catholicism was enriched by an image of God as “older than all need,” an image that reflected the ancient wisdom of his people.

Totalitarian Nicaraguan State under President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo attacks Catholic groups with forced closures. 

The “weird” meme, popularized by the Harris-Walz campaign, goes hand in hand with a longstanding ridicule of rural America, and it is punching down on some of the most disadvantaged people in our society.

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle, by Cecilia González-Andrieu

A Reflection for the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Jill Rice

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope, by Zac Davis

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, prayed for God’s guidance in ‘this new chapter of our nation’s history’ as Joe Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer.

The movement was founded in 1971 as a lay community to recruit “soldiers for God,” one of several Catholic societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, by Tim Reidy

Drawing on work of lay Catholic prison chaplain Dale Recinella, Pope Francis paints death penalty as toxic and ineffective.

On Spain’s Canary Islands, arrivals of unaccompanied migrants are on track to reach a historic high this year, and caring for the migrant youth has become politically contentious.

Public events take place today in 2024 that are eerily comparable to situations in another critical year: 1968. But our current situation, like 1968, is a moment when our faith can make a difference in history and in our own memories.

Reducing our tariffs on Chinese exports, particularly solar panels and electric cars, would be an environmentally friendly move and would promote world peace.

A Reflection for Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Connor Hartigan

Welcome to the Wedding of the Sea in Atlantic City.

Torn between religious devotion and his own children, Tevye struggles to hold onto his faith in a new and uncertain world.

“Sing Sing” sidesteps the trap of cheap melodrama that exploits the trials and trauma of incarcerated people.

A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.