A Reflection for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher

From July 24 to July 29, Pope Francis will meet with Indigenous People in Canada to apologize and ask forgiveness, on their land, for abuses perpetrated in largely Catholic Church-run residential schools.

The us-them thinking of modern Trumpist populism is nothing new. Americans have been responding to duress with xenophobia and anti-government narratives since the country's founding.

“We will not tire of emphasizing that the church in Germany will not follow a ‘German special path’,” said a joint statement by the Synodal Presidium, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference and ZdK President Irme Stetter-Karp.

We laypeople are failing in our mission. We have outsourced evangelization to a few paid members of staff and a collective of volunteers.

An opportunity for more research on ectopic pregnancies cannot be overlooked as controversy over these pregnancies erupted following Roe v. Wade being overturned.

A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mary of Magdala, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

The new film “Elvis” isn’t long enough to include all of Elvis’s gospel hits, but here are some highlights from his career.

On his new album, Andrew Bird takes a hard look at the ills of contemporary America and wonders how on earth we got here.