A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Molly Cahill

I have heard it said that if the public could see the physical images of violence after a shooting, perhaps we would all be more fervent in our demand for radical change. I have seen it. Must I make you look, too?

In their quest to eliminate any threat to their operations drug cartels have killed journalists, environmental activists and priests, in addition to any average citizens caught in their way.

St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon faced persecution as the first Korean priest. Yet he continued to spread the Gospel and evangelize the people of his nation.

A worker’s advocate, feminist leader and civil rights proponent whose work continues today at the age of 93, Dolores Huerta was an under-recognized leader.

Ron DeSantis was raised Catholic, but he and and his wife, Casey, rarely discuss the particularities of their religious beliefs in public.

Illinois’ attorney general released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Tuesday; investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.

Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher

The help Father Beotti “offered to many Jewish people persecuted by the Nazi-Fascists played a decisive role” in his death, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

Pope Francis will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day in the first week of August and include a stop at the popular Marian shrine in Fatima, the Vatican confirmed.

A Reflection for Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Tim Reidy

I enjoyed being in "Succession," but should our church have been used for this abrasive show?

Pope Francis’ peace mission, which he first announced on April 30, now appears to be underway.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Samantha Richardson

Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.

The Catholic Church played a major role in bringing tobacco to Italy, which is still the number one producer of raw tobacco in the European Union today.

The guys caught up in gang violence were yearning for respect, as all people deserve, and gaining a grasp on their perspective was God’s lesson for me.

A Reflection for Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by James T. Keane

The Vatican said the driver was about 40 years old and was in a “serious state of psychophysical alteration."