Comedian Chelsea Handler proudly champions her childfree lifestyle. But for Catholics, parenthood is not simply a lifestyle choice and has less to do with happiness than with purpose.

A Reflection for Monday of the First Week of Lent, by Rachel Lu

In an exclusive interview on the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Archbishop Paul Gallagher emphasizes the need to end the war but says that “a just peace” is not on the horizon.

I didn’t know Bishop Dave as well as others did, so part of me also feels like my sadness is unjustified. And then there is regret.

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell was committed to ‘the ordinary person, not the rich Catholic,’ said Linda Dakin-Grimm, an immigration attorney who worked with the bishop. His death is being investigated as a homicide.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

For someone with the right ears and eyes, Burning Man provides opportunities to become more engaged and more intentional in faith.

I introduced students to a worldview completely at odds with the one expressed by Pope Francis. In doing so, I rationalized greed and dismissed the idea of a common good.

Devastated by malnutrition and preventable diseases like flu, pneumonia, anemia, malaria and diarrhea, the Yanomami people have been called victims of a contemporary genocide by government authorities.

Pope Francis today publicly denounced the sentencing of Nicaragua’s Bishop Rolando Álvarez to 26 years and four months in prison.