Pope Francis had “a restful night and woke up shortly after 8 a.m.,” the Vatican said on Friday morning, March 7. It was his 22nd night in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.

Just as Popes John Paul II’s and Benedict’s final days revealed their understandings of the papacy, Francis’ illness has revealed him once again as the world’s parish priest, suffering close to his people.

A Reflection for Friday of the First Week of Lent, by Connor Hartigan

A Reflection for Tuesday of the First Week of Lent, by Leilani Fuentes

A reflection for the First Monday of Lent, by Ashley McKinless

We are called to meet Latino young adults where they are. Our dioceses and parishes need to make a more concerted effort for Latinos with strong catechesis and youth ministry programs.

The “manosphere” calls for more testosterone, more spectacle. But servant leadership, embodied in Catholic men’s groups past and present, encompass the fullness of human experience.

On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Kim Daniels, the director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, about Trump's clashes with the Catholic Church.

The series succeeds in the same way Patrick Radden Keefe’s book did: It makes you love these people.

In Llewyn I see a reflection of the human soul: restless, fumbling towards eternal but frequently getting sidetracked.