A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church, the Vatican newspaper reported Thursday. L’Osservatore Romano said the encounter took place Wednesday on the sidelines of Francis’ weekly general audience.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Clare, by J.D. Long-García

Father Kabat, an avid anti-nuclear protestor and member of the Plowshares Eight, is dead at 88 years old.

Why do we dwell within our protective shells, safe from what might harm us but certainly not fully open to what lies beyond?

In the last of a series of audiences centered around the "catechesis of old age," Pope Francis emphasized the importance of finding God's promise for new life in the elderly.