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.

John LaFarge, S.J., a longtime editor at America, was also one of the nation's leading advocates for racial justice beginning in the 1920s.

Jordan Peterson has gained celebrity by offering strategies for coping with modernity. But his fellow Canadian, the Jesuit Bernard Lonergan, offered strategies that were more holistic in nature and incorporated the whole community.

This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Jeanne Mancini, the president of the National March for Life since the fall of 2012, about the future of the the pro-life movement.

Authorities say Sunday's bombing in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60.

Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern Congo.

A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael O’Loughlin

Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot, by Zac Davis

A Reflection for Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber