Preaching for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C, Fr. Bill Gabriel, O.S.A., finds resonance in his homily between the risen Christ’s parting words—“Peace be with you”—and Pope Leo XIV’s call for “an unarmed and disarming peace.”

At his installation Mass, the pope said, "in this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference, and an economic paradigm that exploits the Earth’s resources and marginalizes the poorest.”

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist attraction, demonstrating the complex reality of their fame.

“I’m glad that there are people still coming through,” Zomi leader Francis Kham says, but refugee resettlement “should be extended to everyone that’s really [facing] the same discrimination.”

While Pope Leo XIV has deleted the account he began as Father Robert F. Prevost on Twitter, now X, in 2011, the Vatican has launched new accounts for him on X and Instagram.

Leo XIV told the ambassadors that as pope he intended “to strengthen understanding and dialogue” with their respective countries.

Fan service isn’t just for Marvel movies. It’s alive and well in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow.’

And how the church can accompany couples struggling with infertility

Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.

Jared Lemus’s robust, melancholy debut short story collection 'Guatemalan Rhapsody' gives us characters who strive for love, respect or mere survival in tales that unfold in Guatemalan towns or among immigrant communities in the United States.