Look at the people with whom you live and work. How are they doing? How are they because of your role in their lives? These questions might reveal as much about your standing with the Lord as your list of sins.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent, by Heather Trotta

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent, by Kevin Clarke

Results of a poll of 9,000 Christian churches last December were released this Dec. 1. What Christmas carols made the Top 10?

A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week of Advent, by Jill Rice

A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent, by James T. Keane

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, by J.D. Long-García

Too many of us are attracted to a “spatial” life because we can control spaces and stop them from changing. But time, even when managed, is always beyond our control. In his new book, James K. A. Smith seeks to reorient us to the reality of human life as temporal.

A Reflection for Friday of the First Week of Advent, by Cristobal Spielmann

This week on “Jesuitical,” we’re talking to Kerry Weber about what it was like to be a woman asking PopeFrancis about women’s ordination, a question considered by many to be off the table, within the walls of the Vatican.