This week on “The Spiritual Life,” Father James Martin speaks with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about faith, fatherhood and his “Jesuit background.”

In ‘Where is the Friend’s House?,’ we see the faces of the Iranian people captured with sensitivity and detail.

Among those recognized at two theology conferences in June was Stephen Bevans, S.V.D., to whom the Catholic Theological Society of America gave its highest honor, the John Courtney Murray Award.

“Keeping our gaze on Jesus, we must learn to give a name and voice even to sadness, fear, anguish, indignation, bringing everything into relationship with God,” Pope Leo said.

Masked police undermine trust and amplify fear. They do not fit a democratic society.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

“This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes.”

A Reflection for Monday of the Twelfth Week of Ordinary Time, by Jackson Goodman

“Let diplomacy silence the guns!” Pope Leo XIV told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square a few hours after the United States entered the Iran-Israel war by bombing three of Iran’s nuclear sites.

Pope Leo XIV’s statement was read at the premiere of a play about the Peruvian investigative journalist Paola Ugaz, who was subject to death threats because of her reporting on sexual abuse.