This election highlights the deep divisions in American society. But perhaps the strange working of mercy and providence is evident even there, keeping us attentive to the need for conversion and reconciliation.

There’s an old joke that a camel is what you get when a horse has been designed by a committee. The synod’s final document bears the camel-like appearance of committee drafting. Maybe that‘s a good thing.

I have admittedly rolled my eyes at the language the Vatican uses around the Synod on Synodality. But it should prompt all Catholics to ask themselves: Do I know what I am really trying to say?

When public servants when they show us a glimpse of something that points the way toward “more perfect union,” we ought to pay close and grateful attention.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

The Gaza campus protests reveal the nature—and danger—of righteous anger.

If you are not challenged somewhere in your own moral thinking by reading it, then you most likely have not read it thoroughly enough.

A Reflection for Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

In issuing “Laudato Si’,” nine years ago, Pope Francis made climate change a central issue in the church’s social teaching. Are we still paying attention?

There is a profound grace in submitting ourselves to a rhythm of time that we do not control.