A reflection for the Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Chris Smith, S.J.—one of a small number of Black Jesuits in formation in the U.S.—joins “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” to talk about his multi-racial family’s legacy of love, racism, reconciliation and healing.

On March 25, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a penance service. Why?

Pope Francis has been invited to the besieged capital of Ukraine.

John Steinbeck, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, had many fans—and a few detractors—among reviewers in America over the years.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen has become the first in Germany to allow women to perform baptisms, citing a lack of priests.

But don't make a big show of it either. There is a fine line between being a witness and being a weirdo.

A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent, by Sarah Vincent.

Pope Francis has called for Catholics to support principles of “total sustainability.” A meat industry that warms the planet, ravages forests and fouls our water is incompatible with those principles.

The problem with this seemingly compassionate dictum is that today it is applied almost exclusively to one group: L.G.B.T.Q. people.

A Reflection for the Monday of the Second Week of Lent by J.D. Long-García

America is launching a groundbreaking national marketing campaign. We’re calling it #OwnYourFaith.

“In the name of God, I ask: Stop this massacre,” the pope said March 13 at the end of his Sunday Angelus address.

Watch as Jesus calls Levi the tax collector and they share a meal together, while the Pharisees and scribes ridicule Jesus for his embrace of outcasts.

The Vatican on Saturday expressed “surprise and pain” at Nicaragua's expulsion of the papal nuncio, which comes at a time of growing pressure on opposition figures in the Central American nation.

"Dear brothers and sisters, may our holy father Ignatius help us to preserve discernment, our precious legacy, as an ever timely treasure to be poured out on the Church and on the world."

On the 17th day of the war in Ukraine, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, repeated Pope Francis’ call for “an immediate ceasefire” in Ukraine.

“The people who come are not dead in a technical sense, but they have lost their lives. And they don’t have a new one yet, so they are terribly beaten, and terribly vulnerable.”

America’s film editor reviews “The Godfather,” a film he thought too long but otherwise a remarkable movie by a 33-year-old Francis Ford Coppola.

‘Great Freedom’ is an exploration of the nature of eros: the many acts, only some of them sexual, toward which it can propel us.