We must become a church that accompanies its people and is attuned to their hopes, doubts and lived experiences.

In his weekly audience, Pope Francis shares his experiences at World Youth Day in Portugal and what they reveal about today’s young people.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Laura Oldfather

“I’m an African American woman in a space that is doing the kind of work that…Christ is calling us to do,” Cynthia Bailey Manns, who will participate in the Synod on Synodality as a voting member in October, said in an interview.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Dominic, by Rachel Lu

“I think that there we have a piece of information that is beautiful and a girl who has recovered her sight,” Cardinal Omella said. “Doctors will now have to assess whether or not it was incurable,” the first step in the official declaration of a miracle.