Cardinal Robert McElroy, Bishop Robert Barron and Bishop Daniel Flores talk with Gloria Purvis about their roles as shepherds in their dioceses and the U.S. church in an election year.

My plan was not to read three books in a row about death. But I just did.

Gloria Purvis and Sam Sawyer, S.J., discuss the Catholic imperative to form and obey one’s conscience, especially around two key voting issues: abortion and racism.

On this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Ricardo da Silva, S.J., interview Dr. Catherine Clifford, a professor of systematic and historical theology at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada, who served as an elected member of the 2024 Synod on Synodality’s drafting commission for the final document.

For Catholics who want to see immediate changes in the church, the synod was an opportunity for conversion.

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.