Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church, the Vatican newspaper reported Thursday. L’Osservatore Romano said the encounter took place Wednesday on the sidelines of Francis’ weekly general audience.

The Senate cafeteria workers are not asking for much—just an improved hourly rate that has a chance of catching up to inflation and something close to the health insurance abundance enjoyed by the senators they serve each day.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Clare, by J.D. Long-García

Young people are feeling more anxious, uncertain, and often hopeless about the climate crisis than ever. But in order to make real progress, we have to move past those feelings and let ourselves hope.

Those who want to reduce or minimize abortion, as opposed to eliminating it, are in a more difficult political position. 

Father Kabat, an avid anti-nuclear protestor and member of the Plowshares Eight, is dead at 88 years old.

During a Mass for peace, Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe decried the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico since last November.

Why do we dwell within our protective shells, safe from what might harm us but certainly not fully open to what lies beyond?

In the last of a series of audiences centered around the "catechesis of old age," Pope Francis emphasized the importance of finding God's promise for new life in the elderly.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill