A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Eric Gregory

Catholics across Texas and the world, including Pope Leo XIV, are offering their prayers and support after deadly flooding struck Texas on July 4.

Each year at this time, near the Fourth of July, we contemplate freedom. But maybe we are also being called to do an extended examination of our own fears.

Is it possible to embrace the idea of a special, evenly divinely ordained mission for America without violating Christian ethical principles?

Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during his 12-year pontificate.

A Reflection for Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael Simone, S.J.

Pope Leo XIV named the French archbishop Thibault Verny as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He succeeds Cardinal Seán O’Malley, 81, the emeritus archbishop of Boston.

“Deep cuts” to SNAP and Medicaid will “inflict real suffering on these families…. SNAP and Medicaid are not luxuries, they are lifelines for millions of children across our country.”

It was one of the first times Leo has spoken unscripted at length in public, responding to questions posed to him by the children.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Christopher Robles

A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill

The Vatican has named the judges that will preside over the trial of disgraced Father Marko Rupnik.

For so many of us, Roger Haight marked off a breathtakingly wide horizon in which we, agreeing with him or not, could fulfill our mission for God’s people.

Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly also found in the Catholic imagination.

The world of academic theology is facing the cumulative effect of long-building forces, forces reshaping not only theology but the entire structure of higher education.

“Illinois” describes a state and a nation in motion, full of complicated human beings who do bad things and good things.

Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation.”

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle, by J.D. Long García

“We are alive only through the grace of God. At one point, I got messages saying someone had offered 1 million lempiras [$38,000] to have me killed.”

The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.