In her feature, Eve Tushnet describes a curriculum she is creating to welcome young L.G.B.T. Catholics. The article elicited numerous responses from our readers.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Alessandra Rose

An Alabama priest disgraced after abandoning his parish to travel to Italy with an 18-year-old woman described himself as “married” to her in a Valentine’s Day letter.

87 is the new 60 at the Vatican.

Living under the reign of sin, they are still a necessary bulwark, nation-states to see them as God’s will for humanity is to blaspheme the one who knows no bounds.

While narrow nationalism fanned the fires of war, Father Willie Doyle, a WWI chaplain, often paid as much attention to wounded German soldiers as he did to those on his own side.