In an essay published on America’s website in September, John F. Baldovin, S.J., examined the theological soundness of making a monetary offering for the sake of “having a Mass said” for an individual.

We can make major life commitments, and yet also believe in spirit of discernment to make changes in our commitments.

Discussions around consent should become a commonplace feature of Catholic conversations about sexual ethics. They can serve especially as a corrective to the harmful use of “marital debt” rhetoric within Catholic culture.

The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.

In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Julia McStravog, a senior advisor on the Synod on Synodality at the U.S.C.C.B., to get an inside look into how the U.S. church organized itself to carry out the national and continental phases of the synod, and how those phases inform the ongoing meeting in Rome.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne