A Reflection for Monday of Holy Week, by Michael Simone, S.J.

The Israeli military began perhaps its most aggressive ground offensive so far in the war to root out what is left of Hamas, maintaining an almost daily pace of incursions and airstrikes. The results have been devastating.

Roosevelt understood, as few American presidents had before him, that there was no inherent separation between Christian charity and democratic citizenship.

Cory Booker and the Hands Off protesters prove that words still have power. But only if we accompany them with action.

At the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, you are guaranteed to find the following: a signed first edition of your favorite book, a celebrity (or two) and Bibles.

And the Easter Mass that moved her

It is a profound thing, when society has labeled you a criminal and a felon, to think that at the center of the world’s most populous faith tradition is a man whom those in power at the time condemned as a criminal.

Mr. Bruni said the pope is in “good humor” and happy to get out of his suite at the Casa Santa Marta and surprise people, as we saw yesterday, April 10, when the pope appeared in St. Peter’s Basilica.

What happened at Nicaea in A.D. 325? And why is that still so important for Christian churches today?

The first Deaf Eucharistic Congress was held in Emmitsburg, Md. from April 4 to 6.