“Our sexual lives have many areas of sinfulness and I’m not challenging that,” Cardinal McElroy says this week on the Jesuitical podcast. “All I’m saying is that in the Christian moral life, they don’t automatically represent mortal sin.”

“As I heard the chant ‘Cardinal Pell should go to Hell,’ I thought, ‘Ah ha! At least they now believe in the afterlife!’ Perhaps this is St. George Pell’s first miracle,” former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.

A Reflection for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

A homily for the fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Terrance Klein

Pope Francis told the million Congolese gathered before him that Jesus has shown “three sources” from which “to nurture peace”: “forgiveness, community and mission.”

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Christopher Parker

”Hands off Africa!” Pope Francis said on the first day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Stop choking Africa: It is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.”

Any Hispanic student should be able to say, “One day I want to be a teacher—or a leader—like my Hispanic teacher.”

A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill

While representing Ukraine as an ice dancer in the Olympics, I made friends with many Russians. And I hope that one day my daughter can greet them in their own language.