Today we allow the existence of a societal system that literally kills people of color, through lack of good medical care, unequal legal rights and the effects of poverty. This curse on people of color lives side by side with white Christianity.

A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Jackson

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

Cardinal Robert McElroy reflects on receiving the red hat from Pope Francis and discusses the points of consensus as well as disagreement at the first worldwide meeting of cardinals since 2014.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz

“Capital punishment offers no justice to victims, but rather encourages revenge. And it prevents any possibility of undoing a possible miscarriage of justice,” the pope said in a video message Aug. 31.