With the “further escalation of tension in Ukraine,” the president of the Polish bishops’ conference asked Polish Catholics to continue praying for peace, but also to be prepared to welcome Ukrainian refugees.

“Pope Francis has said to reach out to the margins and help those who are in need, the refugees, the displaced. And we have a retreat center that has lots of space.”

A retired nurse who felt called to help Afghan refugees and the young Afghan mother she embraced as a mentor were killed in a truck accident while out taking a walk Feb. 15.

Charles Darwin’s teaching has been misappropriated by generations of intellectually dubious adherents.

“I returned to my Catholic upbringing, professing a faith I did not completely feel, because I was suffering and needed answers from God,” writes Lyle C. May, who is on death row in North Carolina.

My new motto has become, “Preach the Exercises always; when necessary, use words.”

Christians today are split between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to re-invigorating our sense of the common good.

We need a new image of what it means to be a good neighbor.

As the world begins to emerge from the most recent surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, how do we return to normal? And what should normal mean?

The Vatican’s big fraud and extortion trial resumes Friday with a new spy story taking center stage that is more befitting of a 007 thriller than the inner workings of a papacy.