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

Cardinal Robert McElroy reflects on receiving the red hat from Pope Francis and discusses the points of consensus as well as disagreement at the first worldwide meeting of cardinals since 2014.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz

“Capital punishment offers no justice to victims, but rather encourages revenge. And it prevents any possibility of undoing a possible miscarriage of justice,” the pope said in a video message Aug. 31.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Sebastian Gomes

From 1995: James Martin, S.J., asked a number of the leading figures of American Catholicism to answer a short but complicated question: How can I find God?