On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis made an appeal to “lay down the arms in Ukraine” and asked, “What kind of a victory would it be to plant a flag on a heap of ruins?”

“In the course of this week, let us cling to the certainty that God can forgive every sin. He forgives everyone. He can bridge every distance, and turn all mourning into dancing.”

I’d like to propose a new way of celebrating this holiest of weeks, something that hopefully deepens our Catholic imaginations and prepares our hearts for the Easter season.

Faced with anxieties we have not experienced since the Cold War, perhaps it is time to return to Thomas Merton’s writings on nuclear weapons and the Christian responsibility to advocate for peace in a nuclear age.

In this exclusive interview, Canadian Archbishop Don Bolen shares the significance of the pope’s meeting with Indigenous survivors of Canada’s residential schools and what he expects from the pope’s pledged visit to Canada.

Praying and savoring the Stations of the Cross with friends can add a new dimension to the season of Lent.

Father Joshua Whitfield on his vocation as a husband, father and priest, and why most Catholic homilies are just plain awful.

Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former editor of ‘America’ who died April 6.

As Pope Francis apologizes for abuses at Catholic boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for a reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.

Pope Francis hopes to visit Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan in July, with possible trips to Ukraine and Lebanon before that. But this past weekend, the pope struggled to move around during his trip to Malta.