Desire is the lack of a reference point that orients the path of life; it evokes a suffering, a lack, and at the same time a tension to reach the good that we miss.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill

As good theologians, those in attendance at the council will be impelled to get to the heart of the principal problems bothering Catholics and non-Catholics alike in the modern world.

Catholics must be careful, he said, because “both the ‘progressivism’ that lines up behind the world and the ‘traditionalism’ that longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity,” the pope said.

A Reflection for the Optional Memorial of Saint John XXIII, by Ashley McKinless

A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.