For Thanksgiving week, “Inside the Vatican” is bringing you a brief update on a few of the top Vatican stories.

Mere “survival should not be the utmost ambition for a people in democratic countries, but rather prosperity and welfare. I believe that Israel is going to be more Jewish and much less democratic, and we’ll all pay the price for that.”

A Reflection for Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle

John T. Noonan, a consummate polymath, was perhaps one of the most lauded, influential and recognizable Catholics engaged in the public square in the last 50 years.

Will Toledo, the founder and lead singer of the band, often uses his music as an outlet to examine his teenage feelings as a young gay man in northern Virginia.

Pope Francis continues his weekly audiences on discernment: Spiritual consolation “is an experience of interior joy, consisting in seeing God’s presence in everything.”

I got lost in a maze of darkness and could not get out. Christ is like the great hero, rushing into the cold and dark to save us.

If you’re looking at Turkey Day with a certain amount of apprehension, here are a few tips from Jesuit life that we’ve found help make things not only manageable but sometimes unexpectedly great.

The characters of Kirstin Valdez Quade's stories often find grace to be just out of reach—but they still pursue it.

In the face of a changing climate and polarized politics, the people of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cut Off, La., have learned to trust in God’s care and the care of one another.