Some suggestions from the staff of America for summer reading: books old and new, long and short, funny and sad.

These are films that I find meaningful and believe resonate with our faith—particularly our call to love our L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and to uphold their human dignity.

Basketball fans know Steve Javie as a longtime N.B.A. referee and a frequent commentator on ESPN and ABC. But for the parishioners at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Newtown, Pa., he’s Deacon Steve.

“Can we laugh at God?’ Pope Francis asked a group of comedians invited for an audience at the Vatican. “Of course, we can, just as we play and joke with the people we love.“

I am always going to be let down by humans, but never by the One who is fully human and fully divine.

Both the United States and the European Union are experiencing a period when double-digit percentages of foreign-born people have been able to achieve legal residency.

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity released a study document on the role of the bishop of Rome and how that role is viewed by other Christian churches.

Pope Francis is scheduled to sit down with U.S. President Joe Biden and eight other heads of state in a series of private bilateral meetings during the Group of Seven on Friday, June 14.

Have you heard the one where Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg and Conan O’Brien walked into the Vatican?

A Reflection for Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Jill Rice

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, by Michael Simone, S.J.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis

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

The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a challenge against an abortion pill due to a “lack of legal standing” in the lawsuit against the drug.

On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry and host Colleen Dulle discuss Gerry’s interview with the cardinal and give an overview of a busy week for the pope.

In his general audience, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to keep reading to Bible, which reveals God’s love. He also directed a message to preachers to keep homilies to no more than eight minutes.

A Homily for Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

Sister Luisa Derouen has provided spiritual companionship to some 250 trans people, assuring them that they are God’s children.