“Inside the Vatican” is back from summer break this week, just as the Vatican wraps up an unusually jam-packed late August.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle speaks with Sant’Egidio’s Elizabeth Boyle about the lay group’s efforts to foster peace and friendship in South Sudan.

When it comes to social justice issues, “the church can show up as moral first responders or as funeral directors,” says Cornell Brooks.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry and host Colleen Dulle recap the Vatican’s recent family-related news through the lens of Gerry’s interview with Cardinal Farrell.

Dana Sweeney joins “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” this week to discuss mass incarceration, economic and racial justice and government accountability in Alabama.

What Catholics in the pews think about abortion is not clear—and we don’t ever talk about it.