Members of the Society of Jesus have been called in recent years to see as mission territory not just our works out in the world, but the very communities in which we live.

For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis received in a private audience this morning a top-ranking member of the Russian Orthodox Church, second only to patriarch Kirill of Moscow.

A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy

The pope shares St. Vincent of Lérins’s view on how doctrine can develop and how there can be growth in the expression and awareness of the faith and in morals “while always remaining faithful to its roots.”

Tom Cornell, who died on Aug. 1 at the age of 88, was truly one of the architects of the American Catholic peace movement.