A Reflection for the Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest, by Colleen Dulle

You either control the narrative, or the narrative is controlled by anyone who grabs the media’s attention.

In “The Great Divorce,” C.S. Lewis paints a rich, multifaceted picture of the afterlife, one that could teach Christians quite a bit about life on Earth today.

In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews John Thavis, author of “The Vatican Diaries” and “The Vatican Prophecies,” about how synods and their guidelines around secrecy have evolved over time.

As an American, as a young person and as someone who never showed their work during math class, I am naturally inclined to care more about results than the process that produces them.

“Synodality helps us a lot because it is the communities that tell us how to be a church, rather than a bishop telling the people how to be church,” Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, said.

Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it.

The al-Ahli Arab hospital was a sanctuary, a holy place, a home to hundreds of Palestinians; it's now in ruins as a result of the ongoing war in Gaza.

After a heartrending testimony in the synod hall, Father Timothy Radcliffe said: “I hope it changed us.”

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.