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On Friday, Pope Leo XIV issued a statement on the theme "Migrants, missionaries of hope."
In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.
A pair of hands opening a thick paperpack book. (iStock/LeoPatrizi)
Many of my acquaintances have given up “reading about something that didn't happen.” But fiction has long-term and concrete value, both mentally and socially.
The archbishop assured migrants in a pastoral letter that “the Church is a community of faith, and the divine person of Christ, who was forced to flee his homeland as a child, holds you in his compassionate arms.”
A Reflection for the Feast of St. James, Apostle, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Observers around the world have grown weary of the images of starving children and desperate people gunned down while trying to collect bags of flour or boxes of food.
A woman reads a book while sitting on the bank of a calm river, with mountains in the background. (iStock/swissmediavision)
After four decades in education, both secular and Catholic, I have witnessed teaching models come and go. The moment before us, however, is not a passing phase; it is a threshold.

“I tell you…he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence” (Lk 11:8).

A Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.