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Father Joseph M. McShane, S.J. passes the ceremonial university mace to Tania Tetlow during her inauguration ceremony on October 14, 2022. Photo by Bruce Gilbert/Fordham University.
Tania Tetlow said she will refuse complacency and “what is easy,” instead putting the university’s efforts into addressing its difficulties.
Limitations and rules are part of our daily lives. How do they make our lives more full?
For our latest "Inside the Vatican" deep dive, we interviewed top officials in the Vatican’s synod office and ordinary Catholics holding listening sessions around the world—including someone who is more critical of the synod.
a man is seated on the ground with a cardboard sign that reads "homeless please help" and a man crouches holding a kitten next to him

“He hears the cry of the oppressed” (Sir 35:16).

We experience now a church where the laity matter—where, for example, a New York Times columnist without any church title can have a voice.
Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, holds a sign at the party's election night headquarters in Rome Sept. 26, 2022. Italian voters handed a victory to a coalition of center-right parties and set the stage for Meloni to become the next prime minister. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)
There is much speculation about how Pope Francis and Giorgia Meloni, the future prime minister of Italy, will relate to each other. Their positions on the migrant question appear to be diametrically opposed.
Paper dove on a table
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher
The absolute refusal to accept handed-down truths—whether in politics, science, religion or art—was a constant in Kurt Vonnegut’s life and work.
seven college students in regular clothes stand in front of a graffiti mural of george floyd with his face and name, in minneapolis
Modern Catholic Pilgrim, the company organizing these pilgrimages, aims to reform the culture of the American Church—and even secular society—through the spiritual practices of hospitality and pilgrimage.
"People of God: How Catholic parish life is changing in the United States," a new documentary film from America Media
In the fall of 2021, America Media’s video team hatched an idea: What would it look like if we traveled to four parishes across the United States during the course of one year and assessed their similarities and differences? Here is a snapshot of what we found.