For Chesterton, Christie and McInerny, a mystery story was the perfect device for showing how even dramatic sins, like murder, spring from the fallen condition that all human beings share.

On “Inside the Vatican” this week, Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell decode what this latest meeting between the pope and the Ukrainian president might mean for the Vatican’s mediation efforts.

Teilhard’s eucharistic vision have moved many readers, including Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

A Reflection for the Ascension of the Lord, by Michael R. Simone, S.J.

Caritas Internationalis held its general assembly in Rome last week and elected a new leadership team to coordinate its work in more than 200 countries.

In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis uses St. Francis Xavier as an example of missionary zeal who spread the Gospel to people who had never heard it before.

Bishop Strickland wrote that he believes Pope Francis is the pope, but he "reject(s) his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith."

Pope Francis emphasized in particular “the urgent need for ‘gestures of humanity’ towards the most fragile persons, the innocent victims of the conflict.”

Pope Francis joined Giorgia Meloni in encouraging young Italians to have more children, saying, “Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism.”

The Synod on Synodality is good news for all the baptized, and in particular, it is good news for women.