A Reflection for Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

Jim remembered everyone—even my mother whom he had never met or spoken with. A special occasion would not go by without a phone call or a handwritten note from Jim.

“Praise increases joy. Praise is like a ladder: it leads hearts upward,” Pope Francis said. “Praise elevates souls and defeats the temptation to give up.”

A prison warden in Mississippi hired nearly a dozen released model inmates to work as chaplains, counselors and teachers. Other prisons can follow suit—and Christian ministries can help.

By revisiting the various moments of grace from World Youth Day, we might identify some ways we still need to walk together if we are to make effective the pope’s call for a church that is “for all.”

Wildfires raged on the island of Maui, wiping out an entire town and driving people to seek refuge in the ocean.

A rule proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Aug. 7 governing the implementation of the law contains broad language including abortion among "related medical conditions."

Why don't we have fallout shelters anymore? It’s a long story, but an editor at America had something to do with it.

“I’m an African American woman in a space that is doing the kind of work that…Christ is calling us to do,” Cynthia Bailey Manns, who will participate in the Synod on Synodality as a voting member in October, said in an interview.

“I think that there we have a piece of information that is beautiful and a girl who has recovered her sight,” Cardinal Omella said. “Doctors will now have to assess whether or not it was incurable,” the first step in the official declaration of a miracle.