A reflection for the Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

Kaya Oakes offers reflections on what it means to live as a woman today. This meaning grappling with growing older in a society and a church that both continue to prize feminine youth, fecundity and docility above all else.

Many readers disagreed with the position of the editorial board of America magazine after it voiced its support for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Andy Warhol remains an enigma.

If we can accept that God loves us as we are, that we are worthy of love at any size, is it wrong to also desire to be thinner and to take steps to reach that goal?

The danger we face as a church is not so much hostility toward the church and its sacraments, but apathy.

Despite antisemitism, American Judaism is growing and thriving, in part thanks to the largest religious organization in the world making evident that Jews are a beloved part of a larger religious family.

We now live in a “shout your abortion” nation, and a message that crass will never be embraced in more conservative parts of the United States, nor should it be.

The papalization of the church reached its most robust form in the first half of the 20th century, but it might be seeing its twilight under Pope Francis.

Catholics have an opportunity to approach tobacco policy for what it is—a pro-life issue.