Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former editor of ‘America’ who died April 6.

A Reflection for the Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Jim Keane

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.

Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent, by Molly Cahill

Perhaps we need to go slower with shame. It is too powerful a tool to wield carelessly.