Pilgrims coming to Rome will now have the opportunity to experience St. Peter’s Basilica like never before.

A Homily for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

“These are clear signs that the president-elect intends to carry out some of the worst campaign promises, including mass deportation,” Dylan Corbett, the executive director of Hope Border Institute, told America.

At the annual U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, leaders announced their support and promise to defend immigrants and the poor––vowing to speak out in the event of mass deportations.

A Reflection for Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis

A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego proposed the task force, which was supported from the floor by Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J.

Pope Francis has condemned surrogacy as a form of “false compassion.” Now, in Italy, engaging in surrogacy in another country, even where it may be legal, will be a criminal offense for Italian citizens.

In an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, Cardinal Cupich says young Catholics will look back at the synod as “one of the most historic moments in their lives, for it has redirected the focus of where the church is going.”

‘Lolita’ may have been canceled, but Vladimir Nabokov remains the godfather of modern prose.