Rosemary Radford Ruether, who died on May 21, deliberately lived both within the Catholic tradition and on its margins.

I have called myself a peacemaker. I have never held a gun and never want to. But I am also a father, and I will always protect my children.

“We have a system or systems that are failing,” said the archbishop of San Antonio, Tex., which includes Uvalde, said. “They’re obsolete. They’re not, anymore, what we need as a society.”

This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria talks with Dr. Wes Ely, whose research has focused on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill patients with I.C.U.-acquired brain disease.

Is it in keeping with our faith to believe it is possible that those who have died may be able to help us? Absolutely.

When a major event hits the news cycle these days, everyone I follow seems to have a compulsive need to respond as quickly as possible. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Abortion is being promoted as a workaround for the far messier and more urgent task of building an economy that is not mired in sexism. It is not a real choice for those in poverty.

The pope continues to express his desire to visit Ukraine, but remains cognizant of political and practical limitations to this objective.

Pope Francis expressed his solidarity and closeness with Catholics in Nigeria after gunmen stormed a church and reportedly killed at least 50 people during a Pentecost Mass.

In telling a story about complicated mother-daughter relationships and generational trauma, “Everything Everywhere” delivers on the promise of the multiverse in a way Marvel hasn’t.