As St. Ignatius insists—and Pope Francis displays—love is better shown in deeds than in words.

Jesucristo, sánanos.

Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God.

We have tried to live out concern for those around us, but it turned out that we could not begin to outdo them in generosity.

When Anne Marie Becraft established her school in the midst of the nation’s and the church’s slaveholding elite, she powerfully declared that the lives of black people, especially women and girls, mattered.

Each of us imagines we have “My Person.” I long thought mine was comedian John Mulaney.