The fate of Maria Lanakila Church was for several days the subject of rumor.

Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?

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.”

On this special summer episode of “Inside the Vatican,” America editors Ricardo da Silva, S.J. and Gerard O’Connell recap World Youth Day.

A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Samantha Richardson

The Green Deal amends the European Union’s climate, energy, transport and taxation policies with the short term goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030.

Controversy and deep division continue in an Indian archdiocese over the direction the priest faces during the celebration of the liturgy.

Bishop Valério’s nomination came as a surprise to many since Pope Francis had named Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, a cardinal on July 9. It had been wrongly presumed then that the pope would appoint the cardinal-elect as the new patriarch after the World Youth Day celebrations.

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, by Brigid McCabe

We must become a church that accompanies its people and is attuned to their hopes, doubts and lived experiences.