As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal’s legal defense team is now claiming he is in steep mental and physical decline and therefore not able to stand trial.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless

Before faith becomes a list of what is believed, it is an actual experience of the living God. Our emotions, desires, joys or sorrows are, as we say, touched by grace.

Refusing to raise the cap on our national debt would not lead to reduced government spending. But it would endanger economies all over the world.

“The march has always been about an end to Roe, but it’s also about an end to abortion.”

New guidance and policies on ministering to people experiencing gender dysphoria released Jan. 16 by the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, call for compassion and coherence with the church’s teaching on gender and identity.

In his second general audience on evangelization, Pope Francis explains how Jesus is a model of evangelization, whose "pastoral heart beats for the person who is lost and far away."

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Sister André, a Catholic convert raised in a Protestant family, was born Lucile Randon Feb. 11, 1904. She lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and through 10 pontificates.