This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria sits down with Father Matt Malone to discuss their interview with Pope Francis and Father Malone’s 10 years as editor in chief of America magazine.

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Andrew, by Molly Cahill

In a 50-year career as a columnist, Mary McGrory wrote some of the most prescient political journalism around—including for America.

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The Kremlin's ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeev, told the RIA Novosti agency that he met Monday with a Vatican official to express his “indignation” about Francis’ comments.

As many restrictions put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic have been lifted, some Catholic dioceses around the country are returning to offering consecrated wine in the chalice for Communion.

Beijing and the Vatican are once again tangling over the prickly issue of appointing Chinese bishops.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan called the bill “a bad deal for the many courageous Americans of faith and no faith who continue to believe and uphold the truth about marriage in the public square today.”

A Reflection for Tuesday of the First Week of Advent, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

Some part of me hoped that the interview would help teach me how to be more like Francis. But it’s clear the only thing he wants is for us to want to be more like Jesus.