I get the sense that a monumental moment in history “passed us by” this week when Russia announced on Tuesday that it would withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of the decade.

A Reflection for Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

“The enemy,” or the devil, “wants to paralyze us with grief and remorse, to convince us that nothing else can be done, that it is hopeless to try to find a way to start over,” the pope said.

Diego Fares, S.J., who died of cancer last week in Rome at age 66, was arguably the greatest interpreter of the thought and way of proceeding of Pope Francis.

In a British-built fort on the highest hill in Quebec City, Pope Francis spoke to Canadian government and cultural leaders about the never-ending challenge of multiculturalism.

A Reflection for the Seventeenth Thursday in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle

Thérèse of Lisieux and St. Ignatius helped draw me away from scrupulosity—and into accepting God’s love.

We are not meant to envy the intimacy or intensity of religious life. We are called to imitate it.

I’m in my late 50s, but elections still make me feel like I’m supposed to shut up and let the grown-ups talk.

The image of Pope Francis, all alone on the side of the lake, imploring God for healing, will surely remain as an iconic image of this penitential pilgrimage.