“Winning the battle against lust, against the ‘objectification’ of the other, can be a lifelong endeavor,” Pope Francis said today in his general audience.

Published on Religious Freedom Day, the first annual report from the bishops’ religious liberty committee states that attacks on houses of worship constitute “the largest threat to religious liberty in 2024.”

“It has just expanded my worldview and deepened my spirituality," Susan Braddock said of her six years as board chair. ”That doesn’t happen that often in life.”

“If we interpret it from a social point of view, gluttony is perhaps the most dangerous vice, which is killing the planet,” Pope Francis said in his weekly general audience.

The headlines suggest that our political systems are incapable of solving big problems. What if we temper our expectations and realize that politics can bring out both the best and worst of humans?

A famous saying attributed to Abba Anthony the Great, the first great father of monasticism, goes like this: “Remove temptations and no-one will be saved.”

One must never dialogue, brothers and sisters, with the devil. Never!

I don’t imagine sheep making funny faces while being too shy to “baa” on that very first Christmas, but it’s the imperfections in our retelling of the very human story of Christ’s birth that make our play so perfect.

In 'Renewing Theology,' J. Matthew Ashley argues that when brought into dynamic relation with spirituality (and vice versa), the work of theology is deeply relevant to our lives and is vital at every level of following Christ. It becomes part and parcel of a “way of life”—the life of faith.

Three Jesuit university leaders reflect on Cardinal Blase J. Cupich's piece exploring how Jesuit universities can hold true to their mission.