Pope Francis is suffering from “a painful sciatica.”

Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church will dedicate more than a year to focusing on the family and conjugal love.

The C.D.F. said today: ‘We did everything possible to dialogue with Father Flannery. It wasn’t always easy.’

Every conversation my mother and I had about religion drifted into an argument about Pope Francis. Being unable to talk about God with the person who gave me my faith as she lay dying was agonizing.

75 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, writes Drew Christiansen, S.J., the danger of nuclear war is as high as ever. Our “deterrence” strategy needs to be reconsidered.

Hint: He’s not another Francis.

Well, at least 10 of them.

Times of financial stress or uncertainty seem like a natural time to turn to one’s faith, but it can also be one of the most difficult times to do so.

The clergy need to rethink our approach to ministry through wide research and consultation among women of diverse ethnicities, languages, sexual identities and classes.

A Jesuit who works for Jesuit Refugee Service in Thailand raised the question of ministry among migrants and refugees.