in Barack Obama's new memoir, readers get to know a host of colorful characters who played a role in the campaign for the presidency and Obama’s first term in office.

They’re Democrats and Republicans, Catholics, Protestants and a Buddhist. But they all graduated from a Jesuit high school, college or university.

From three 20-somethings, here are the musical selections that have helped us to remember and thank 2020.

“Our bodies are mortal, but our soul is, by its nature, immortal and created to spend eternity with God,” says Dawn Eden Goldstein.

A Reflection for the Fourth Tuesday of Advent.

Coronavirus health restrictions created profound obstacles for the communal relationships and interplay of everyday life at L’Arche communities.

Joe Biden’s Catholic faith was on full display as he quoted a prayer cherished by many Catholics: “Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is darkness, light.”

Biographer Eileen Markey said that the four women were very aware that their work could put them in harm’s way.

At the same time that the Covid-19 crisis has driven up the need for direct services from charities, it has depressed the dollar amounts in donations they are likely to receive.

Young people did not lose a trust we once had in the clergy; many of us never had that trust in the first place.