Toussaint Kafahire Murhula, S.J., a priest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, describes the joy of Congolese people at the pope's visit and his hopes for what the pope's journey might bring.

Black Catholic artist Wayman Scott’s Baltimore Pietà depicts a Black mother holding her dead son, reframing the famous Michelangelo piece through the lens of police brutality.

Pope Francis spoke out against the criminalization of homosexuality, critiqued the use of guns by civilians and admitted to his own mishandling of the sexual abuse crisis in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press.

Dr. Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, reminisces about the personal encounters and official meetings he had with Pope Benedict XVI while they were leading their respective faith communities.

“Whether it be directed towards people of color, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, hatred is never acceptable,” said the archbishop of Washington and Catholic co-chair of the National Council of Synagogues consultation for the U.S.C.C.B.

“Any case like this is very painful, [but].... we have not hidden anything,” says Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus.