Father Joshua Whitfield on his vocation as a husband, father and priest, and why most Catholic homilies are just plain awful.

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.

This week on “Jesuitical,” we ask Christine Emba, the author of “Rethinking Sex”: Why are so many millennial women miserable when it comes to their dating and sex lives?

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” survivors explain their hopes for what healing can look like when the church and indigenous people face the truth together.

In honor of Women’s History Month, “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” is exploring questions about what it means to be a woman, from a Catholic perspective.

This week on “Jesuitical,” we ask author Greg Hillis why some question Thomas Merton’s Catholicity, what we should make of the monk’s brief affair with a nurse—and why his writing is still relevant today.