In the second part of his interview with America’s Vatican correspondent, Cardinal McElroy describes the discussions of Vatican finance and sexual abuse reforms that happened in the cardinals' meeting this week.

How did Mother Teresa's ubiquitous presence in the media hinder us from really knowing her?

For all the buzz surrounding its publication, the Irish synod synthesis is both sober and humble in tone and yet inspiring and hopeful.

Today we allow the existence of a societal system that literally kills people of color, through lack of good medical care, unequal legal rights and the effects of poverty. This curse on people of color lives side by side with white Christianity.

A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Jackson

“Inside the Vatican” is back from summer break this week, just as the Vatican wraps up an unusually jam-packed late August.