Reflection for the Sixth Wednesday of Easter, by Kaya Oakes

The combination of religious faith and prophetic political action that marked César Chávez’s hunger strikes would become typical of many other moments in his long career as a labor organizer turned American icon.

What did four Shreveport neighborhoods with plunging crime rates have in common? They had Friendship Houses, opened and operated by Community Renewal International.

The share of Catholics going to Mass even a few times each year has fallen off significantly compared with the number before the Covid pandemic, but U.S. Catholics overall are largely optimistic about their church and its leaders, a new survey finds.

“It’s a fact that church attendance has strongly (been) reduced, with a significant and steady decline in priestly vocations and church membership, and an increasing loss of financial income.”

The district court in Munich handed down its verdict in the case of the Rev. Joerg Alt after he participated in a road blockade in the Bavarian capital on Oct. 28.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Valerie Schultz

A reflection for Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Bishop Strickland wrote that he believes Pope Francis is the pope, but he "reject(s) his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith."