500 years later, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico still stirs controversy on both sides of the Atlantic
While many Mexicans consider Cortés a rapacious historical villain, Hispanophiles, both in Spain and across the Americas, lionize him for bringing Catholicism and Spanish culture to Mesoamerica.
Migrant farmworkers are lonely and scared. This Jesuit leads a ministry to serve them.
Tom Florek, S.J., is the executive director of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, a national nonprofit made up of 40 dioceses that minister to the thousands of people.
The Foundation of Unconditional Love
June 28, 2026, Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s Gospel passage focuses upon two sets of instructions, each aimed at a different audience.
Let God be the only one to judge you
A Reflection for Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
‘Like I’ve rarely seen him’: Pope Leo’s visit to Spain
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerard O’Connell recaps for Colleen Dulle the highlights from the pope’s three stops: Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands.
Andre Dubus’s ‘A Father’s Story’: a short story with theological heft
For Andre Dubus, writing was a question of deciphering what was happening in the lives of his characters and translating that for others to see and understand—all of which can be seen clearly in “A Father’s Story.”
Will the ’Nova Knicks pay a visit to Pope Leo?
The Knicks are the 2026 N.B.A. champions. And New York right now may be the closest thing to heaven on earth.
What the parable of the Lost Sheep should teach us about individuality, tribalism and communion
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley sit down with Luke Burgis, the director of the Cluny Institute at The Catholic University of America and the author of The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. They discuss why we join and leave tribes, how to form a “solid” self and what healthy group identity looks like. In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir on converting to Catholicism, the consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and new statutes for the Vatican’s commission…
Nuns, fashion and Broadway: A theater professor’s unlikely quest to preserve the history of the Sisters of Charity of New York
Professor Darrin Pufall Purdy found elegance and mystery looking at photos of the long black garments while creating costumes for a production at Boise State University.
Jalen Brunson’s servant leadership
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jackson Goodman
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