It’s hard to describe the mood in Vatican City right now. There is great expectation and excitement but also a sense of unease. Pope Francis welcomed criticism—as long as it was not made behind his ...

Ricardo da Silva, S.J., is an associate editor of America Media and the host of the podcast “Preach.” A Reflection for Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

Congress should do something -- and Catholics should encourage their congresspeople to intervene, and to provide something more than just an enforcement-only approach to the challenges of immigration.

Vice President-elect JD Vance’s wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, once told him that she believed his 2019 conversion to ...

The Rev. Louis J. Cameli, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, is Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s delegate for formation and mission. He is the author of the audiobook Mary’s Journey. Latin Mass, ...

On July 7, settlers carried out a daytime arson attack on the Church of St. George and a Byzantine Christian cemetery. The fifth-century church is “one of the oldest and most venerated places of ...

Ryan Di Corpo previously served as the managing editor of Outreach and was also a former Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., Fellow at America. Eight decades after the end of World War II, Father George Zabelka ...

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by J.D. Long García “For us, as Hispanics who are suffering in the United States, it gives us great hope to believe that this next pope will ...

The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach. Nothing in my life has been as freeing as the realization that not everyone is going to ...

Pope Leo XIV denounced the “violent conflict [that] seems to be raging in the Christian East with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” and said the Christians of the West must do more to help ...

David Neuhaus, S.J., is a Jesuit priest who teaches Scripture in Israel and Palestine. He has been a long-term member of the Holy Land Catholic Church's Justice and Peace Commission. Born in South ...

Victor M. Cancino, S.J., lives on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana and is the pastor of St. Ignatius Mission. He received his licentiate in sacred Scripture from the Pontifical ...