Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former editor of ‘America’ who died April 6.

As Pope Francis apologizes for abuses at Catholic boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for a reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.

A Reflection for the Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Jim Keane

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Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine.”

Pope Francis hopes to visit Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan in July, with possible trips to Ukraine and Lebanon before that. But this past weekend, the pope struggled to move around during his trip to Malta.

Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday.

Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac said the fetuses are from a box of medical waste they got from the driver of a medical waste truck at an abortion clinic, and they claimed the fetuses looked like they were from late-stage abortions.

I am the happiest kid near the diamond.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Molly Cahill