A Reflection for the Thursday of the Third Week of Lent, by Molly Cahill

It is understandable not wanting to take the time to draw attention to the second anniversary of the recent surreal horror show of Covid-19. But there are also many moments of grace scattered across the landscape of lockdowns.

The issue is spiritual hunger. Where do we wander when we fail to recognize it, and how might awareness of it bring us home?

The pope recorded the messages in the spur-of-the-moment when he received the new bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Stephen Chow Sau Yan, S.J., in a private audience at the papal library in the Vatican’s apostolic palace.

If we become numb to the suffering of others, even the Kims and Kanyes of the world who may seem beyond our sympathetic reach, we may also be numbing ourselves to the suffering of people in our own lives.

A Reflection for the Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent, by Michael J. O’Loughlin

With over a million total downloads, “Jesuitical” has reached listeners globally, grown an online community, found financial supporters and is even hosting a pilgrimage to Italy in September.

“Does the transmission of faith—and of the meaning of life—follow this path today, of listening to the elderly?” Pope Francis asked in his general audience.

Sigrid Undset wrote the famous “Kristin Lavransdatter” trilogy and won the Nobel Prize. She also was a sometime contributor to America during the Second World War after the Nazi invasion of Norway had forced her into exile.

“In every age you make yourself known to us, calling us to conversion. At this dark hour, help us and grant us your comfort.”

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.