In a speech at his weekly general audience, Francis said that “fortitude is a fundamental virtue because it takes the challenge of evil in the world seriously.”

For those who were hoping for something “new” in this document, perhaps this will be disappointing. And yet this wisdom about dignity is ever ancient, ever new.

Gerhard Lohfink, who died last week in his native Germany at the age of 89, leaves behind an impressive legacy of faith-informed scholarship on the New Testament and Christian discipleship.

N.C.A.A. women’s hoops attracted a record number of viewers this season—and made stars of some compelling players and coaches.

In a church that values tradition, the idea of “novelty” strikes some people as strange, and a reporter asked the cardinal if people could expect that in another 80 years the teaching in the document would change again.

The Vatican’s new declaration, “Dignitas Infinita” (”Infinite Dignity”), garners praise from U.S. Catholic leaders for its comprehensive addressing of key issues surrounding human dignity, including poverty, migration, abuse, gender issues, and digital violence.

​After B-list careers in their primary professions, these men have found their callings in the earbuds of the young.

The declaration from the Vatican goes beyond the focus on single issues and throws a spotlight on the much broader field of violations of human dignity.

Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, particularly the tools of repetition and organization, says John Baldovin, S.J. But also, he adds with hyperbolic emphasis, “you have to read, read, read, read, read and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.”

The Major Penitentiary is sometimes referred to as chief confessor of the Catholic Church because he has broad faculties that are reserved to the Holy See to grant pardon and forgiveness for sins for which an ordinary priest or bishop cannot grant absolution.

Two new films on the lives of Mother Seton and Mother Cabrini are placing the spotlight on lesser-emphasized aspects of these holy women’s lives.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, by James T. Keane

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Sebastian Gomes

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher

A Reflection for Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, by Kevin Christopher Robles

A Reflection for Saturday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kevin Clarke

In 2014, the American journalist James Foley was beheaded by ISIS terrorists. His mother Diane joins ‘Jesuitical’ this week to discuss his vocation, her enduring faith and a radical act of mercy.

What we do as teachers is a sacred trust. Coach Wooden helped me to do that in my Jesuit setting.

Somerset Maugham's short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.

Pope Francis has been managing church-state relations well since Javier Milei’s election, while the church hierarchy in Argentina has kept a cautious and skeptical distance from the country’s new leader.