A Reflection for Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter, by Michael O’Loughlin

For the first time in the history of the synod, Pope Francis has given women the right to vote and has also made a radical change to the membership of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality.

Shusaku Endo may not have liked the title “greatest Japanese Catholic novelist,” but his works—including ‘Silence’—are powerful meditations on the nature of belief and the vitality and viability of Christianity.

Mexico’s military has been one of the most prolific users of Pegasus spyware since 2011, having “targeted more cell phones with spyware than any other government agency in the world.”

In recent weeks, the battle over abortion focused on mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States and which can also be used following a miscarriage.

America’s multi-platform media ministry ensures that the widest group possible can benefit from journalism that tells the stories of faith in action.

A profile of Shusaku Endo from 1992, three years after America awarded the famous Japanese Catholic novelist the Campion Award.

A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mark, evangelist, by Tim Reidy

From the moment of her birth, my granddaughter has retaught me one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we learn at Confirmation: a sense of wonder and awe.

“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves.”

A tiny population of about 60,000 Armenian Christians remain in Turkey today. Most, uprooted from villages in eastern Anatolia, now live in neighborhoods in Istanbul.

A Reflection for Monday of the Third Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher

Pope Francis wants to visit Argentina, his homeland, in 2024 and has told Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the private secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, that he has to leave his Vatican apartment in the coming months.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kevin Jackson

The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.

Artist Angela Manno creates Byzantine Russian-style icons of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. And they are really extraordinary.

Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.

A federal judge donated tens of thousands of dollars to New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese and consistently ruled in favor of the church amid a contentious bankruptcy involving nearly 500 clergy sex abuse victims.

This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley talk to Dorothy Fortenberry, a producer and screenwriter for “Extrapolations,” a new show from Apple TV+ that aims to shake us from our climate change complacency.

In this week's episode of Inside the Vatican, Ricardo and Gerry discuss the "Vatican Girl" case after Pope Francis defended Pope John Paul II, and the resignation of Hans Zollner, S.J.