Dealing with compassion fatigue—the Ignatian way
How can we nurture and maintain compassion amid all the terrible news? Three interconnected aspects of Ignatian spirituality offer a way.
Haitian youth’s apparent suicide ‘a death of despair’ after TPS Haiti ends, says archbishop
Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old student on scholarship in his first semester at Dayton’s Wright State University, was pronounced dead at the scene after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 in Springfield, Ohio.
The bad does not outweigh the good
A Reflection for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Colleen Dulle
Hong Kong court upholds convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and others over protester relief fund
A Hong Kong court dismissed appeals brought by a 94-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and four others over their convictions for failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested during anti-government protests.
A way out of the Vatican II liturgy wars: Priests should stick to the rubrics
Priests who depart from the rubrics of the Mass may mean well. But Catholics should consider why both Popes Leo and Francis have called such deviations a problem.
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
September 11th and the difference a day makes
Twenty-five years later, I realize how different Sept. 11 was from Sept. 12. The first was all about hurt. Hate began on the second day.
We are expecting too much from the Lindsay Clancy trial
True justice cannot be handed down by a jury.
Reconciliation: A limitless overture
September 6, 2026, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: An ethical response toward those who wrong us develops across our readings this Sunday.
When following Christ means breaking the rules
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber
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