A Reflection for Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

'Exodus 90' is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.

George Dunne, S.J., never backed down from a fight or a perceived injustice in a long career as a priest, academic and activist.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by J.D. Long-García

Featuring James Martin, S.J., Gerard O’Connell and more

The 90-page book contained a chapter detailing the differences between male and female orgasms—and how one can find God’s love in either—while another chapter was titled “God in the partner’s orgasm.”

A Reflection for the Baptism of the Lord, by Jill Rice

The headlines suggest that our political systems are incapable of solving big problems. What if we temper our expectations and realize that politics can bring out both the best and worst of humans?

Pope Francis deplored “the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood” and called on the international community “to prohibit this practice universally.”

Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the Church should reconsider the celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests.