A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, by Kevin Christopher Robles

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, by Ryan Di Corpo

American pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed her most recent music video in a Catholic church, but Catholic iconography has long been the basis for pop songs with sexual themes and erotic imagery.

The bishops’ vote for the head of the education committee could be crucial, as Catholic schools around the nation struggle with changing societal norms around sex and gender.

Behind the scenes of college basketball are the chaplains who offer spiritual support, prayer and wisdom, including the chaplains at nationally-ranked Marquette and Gonzaga.

At a Halloween festival with some 30,000 partygoers, Father Peixoto re-mixed electronic dance beats with words from Pope Francis’ encyclical about protecting the environment. “The people are dancing with sentences from ‘Laudato Si’.’”

God can be a real pain. I think Homer Smith, the protagonist of “Lilies of the Field” would agree.

The ongoing sexual abuse scandal involving the Rev. Marko Rupnik is another reminder of what the church needs to do to deal with this continuing plague.

”It’s natural that the church is moving toward synodality,” Cardinal Garcias said in an exlcusive interview with Gerard O’Connell. “But when you say ‘the future,’ it means everything depends on synodality. I don’t think it does.”

Sondheim has left the building, and he lives on only in interpretation and iteration, no less than Shakespeare or Mozart.

This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley are joined by Elizabeth Boyle, an international relations officer in the Community of Sant’Egidio, a lay social movement focused on three P’s: “prayer, peace and the poor.”

Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Gaillardetz, who died on Tuesday, as a perceptive theologian, mining in his talks, articles and books the ecclesiology of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ vision for the church. They also noted the powerful witness of his reflections on his final months of life.

Chapter 11 reorganization will help the Archdiocese of Baltimore manage lawsuits from historic cases of child sexual abuse without abandoning its ministries.

“Francis’ immediate goal is a stop to the killing,” explains Gerry, which motivates the pope’s advocacy for a ceasefire, entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the release of all hostages being held by Hamas.

26 non-ordained theologians have been authorized to administer the sacrament of baptism in church liturgies for the first time in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in south-western Germany,

A Reflection for the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, by Jill Rice

Ohio becomes the seventh state whose voters have chosen to protect access to abortion through the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last year.

The pastor at a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza organized a hurried baptism celebration for nine children after two unbaptized children were killed in an I.D.F. missile strike on the compound on Oct. 20.

A Homily for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wisdom is not knowing facts. It is a way of being in the world that comes through setbacks, dialogue and silence.

If it would not cause scandal or confusion among other Catholics, “a transsexual—even one who has undergone hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery—may receive baptism under the same conditions as other faithful.”