The synod secretariat has gone to extraordinary lengths to encourage each member into a disposition of openness so that maybe, just maybe, the Holy Spirit can act.

What strikes me most about the synod, now in its third day, is the climate of prayer that envelops it, Gerry O’Connell writes.

The hardest prayer in St. Ignatius’s spiritual exercises eventually brought peace to the dying.

Sam Sawyer, S.J., returns from his tertianship in South Africa to his role as editor in chief.

When we see a spectacular athlete praying in public, we can see her as a sort of athletic Christian soldier, a “counternarrative” to a godless culture or shallow world—and miss the simple, moving experience of the athlete, who is Christian, who is praying.

A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein