A Reflection for Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time by Patrick Cullinan

I usually love a good space story. But the more accolades I read about the new Webb Telescope image, the more I wondered if there was some other photo I hadn’t seen—because the one I kept seeing looked, well, like a blurry photo of stars.

I spent an evening running the word "Catholicism" through the 20+ filters of a popular AI image generator. The results were both stunning and revelatory.

So often what we consider to be interruptions can become invitations. We only need to ask, “What is it that you are saying, dear Lord?”

America Media received 55 awards from the Catholic Media Association on July 7 for its groundbreaking coverage of events at the intersection of the church and world across print, digital, audio and video.

Continuing with determination to open up new positions of responsibility for women in the Roman Curia, Pope Francis has appointed three women as members of the Dicastery for Bishops.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Stephen McNulty

In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.

According to a rash of new polls, Americans have come together over the belief that the country’s major institutions are seriously out of whack.

Pope Francis said he would not live in the Vatican or return to his native Argentina if and when he ever retires, but would instead like to find a church in Rome where he could continue hearing confessions.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy

Were a papal document forthcoming it could lead to a new and definitive papal teaching document on issues as polarizing as contraception, assisted procreation and palliative care.

Every ticket scooped up by scalpers is one less ticket available to the very people that the pope is going to Canada to see.

The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said it is “deeply disturbing and tragic” that the president has chosen to use his power as the nation’s chief executive “to promote and facilitate abortion in our country.”

“Sow integrity for yourselves,” urges Hosea. Right now in the U.K., that feels like the most urgent political task.

"Today we are remembering the priests, the journalists, the social activists and the young people who have died violently," Fr. Jorge Atilano González told his congregation.

The bishops’ conciliatory statements are being overshadowed by the specter of punitive cruelty toward women confronting crisis pregnancies. They must speak out again.

A Reflection for Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

The pope joined the Sri Lanakan Catholic bishops in an “appeal for peace” and to the country’s political leaders “not to ignore the cry of the poor and the needs of the people.”