While the candidates jousted through the end of the election season, migrant encounters along the U.S. southwestern border continued a sharp fall in fiscal year 2024. But why?

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors issued findings and recommendations in its pilot annual report, specifically calling for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The Archbishop of San Juan has demanded former President Donald Trump personally apologize for racist remarks directed at Puerto Rico and others at his Oct. 27 rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of All Saints, by Michael Simone, S.J.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Grace Lenahan

The Vatican of ’Conclave’ is worldly with men’s ambitions and weighty with papal history

There’s an old joke that a camel is what you get when a horse has been designed by a committee. The synod’s final document bears the camel-like appearance of committee drafting. Maybe that‘s a good thing.

“The second and final session of the Synod on Synodality has just concluded,” Father James Martin writes. “And what I noticed most this year is how much the attitude toward L.G.B.T.Q. issues has changed—and for the good.”

A Reflection for the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles, by Leilani Fuentes

Contemplative prayer challenges us to find meaning in suffering. I view this way of praying as the ultimate act of trust in God.