In these (very) short essays, readers describe the ways in which they encountered God. The Lord can be present even in people or situations we least expect.

The British Jesuit Philip Endean showed how Karl Rahner’s theology had deep roots in his experience of the Spiritual Exercises.

Usually private about his personal life, Stevens dedicated the album to his “beloved partner,” who passed away in April.

On the heels of the release of “Laudate Deum,” Pope Francis will travel to Dubai later this month to participate in the U.N. Climate Change conference, commonly known as COP28.

In “Coco,” memory doesn’t just summon up phantoms from the past, it reunites us with those we’ve lost.

The child poverty rate was cut almost in half after an expansion of the child tax credit. So why did Congress, including many in the pro-life movement, let the expansion lapse?

“We cannot say there are bishops who are on the left and ones that are on the right. This is a false analysis,” said Cardinal Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

A Reflection for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls), by Valerie Schultz

A Homily for All Souls’ Day, by Father Terrance Klein

Catherine Clifford, an ecclesiologist and North American voting member in the Synod on Synodality, joins Colleen Dulle, the host of “Inside the Vatican,” in Rome to discuss the synod's implications for church structures and hierarchy.