A Reflection for Monday in the Octave of Easter, by Kerry Weber

A Reflection for Tuesday in the Octave of Easter, by Jackson Goodman

Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.

Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, attended the liturgy with his wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, and his three children after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier in the day.

My Catholic identity and my wife’s Protestant identity continue to endure, and our faith has developed together in greater harmony, knowing that our love for each other was ultimately grounded in our love for God.

the wily accuser tempted him in just the way to confuse a savior: All this I will give you.

Daydreams and memory are saving some Down there from shame

As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.

The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.

In 'Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the way it is molded in fiction—and how the novel evolved from the 19th century novel to that of the 20th century.

There is joy and heartbreak in Father Charles Strobel's memoir, 'The Kingdom of the Poor,' but mostly joy.

We need a healthier public square in which people of all backgrounds can work together.

America's readers weigh in on the president's temperament and conduct.

Especially when preaching to young people who are stressed, traumatized or incarcerated, Father Greg Boyle has learned: If you’re not telling stories, they’re not listening.

Asked how he was living this Easter period, given his condition and convalescence, Pope Francis replied, “As best I can!”

Lent, as a season of penance and preparation, served as the perfect time to push myself out of my spiritual and physical comfort zone––both for my own sake and for those coming to the performance.

If what we need now is the kind of story that restores wonder to the world, Tara Isabella Burton's 'Here in Avalon' provides one avenue to that destination.

It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German landscapes on the Upper East Side.

Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.

On Good Friday, the role of the preacher is to get out of the way.