A prison warden in Mississippi hired nearly a dozen released model inmates to work as chaplains, counselors and teachers. Other prisons can follow suit—and Christian ministries can help.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, by Michael Simone, S.J.

The fate of Maria Lanakila Church was for several days the subject of rumor.

Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?

A Reflection for Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Sebastian Gomes

Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.

By revisiting the various moments of grace from World Youth Day, we might identify some ways we still need to walk together if we are to make effective the pope’s call for a church that is “for all.”

The whole dynamic of hearing confessions in prison is incredible. I use this awesome role of confessor to encourage them to foster the spark of God’s love for them, not to waste it.

Nicaragua appears to have frozen the bank accounts of the country's Jesuit university, marking yet another attack on the Catholic Church.

‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ This film provides one answer.