Many Argentines have been rooting vocally for their national team, but taking care to pray to the country’s many folk saints.

A Reflection for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, by Cecilia González-Andrieu

A Reflection for Saturday of the Second Week of Advent, by Kaya Oakes

A Reflection for Sunday of the Third Week of Advent, by Kerry Weber

Pietro Di Donato wrote 'The Penitent' because he thought it to be a profoundly human story—though both the murderer and the victim became larger than life in reality.

There are some truly excellent films about monks, with deep insights into the love of God and the nature of sacrifice. But why aren’t there more?

A Reflection for Friday of the Second Week of Advent, by Valerie Schultz

As the pope’s step faltered, his cries for peace increased, although not without controversy and criticism.

The Rev. Hans Zollner said the recent statement by the Jesuit order about the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik “raised questions that, as far as I see, can only be answered by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.”

After Dorothy Day's death in 1980, her biographer William Miller wrote her obituary for America, noting that "the amazing thing about her life was the improbability of it all."