Catholic digital content creators reflect on their experiences at the Vatican's first-ever Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.

Kerry Weber: “The Lilly grant is going to give us the opportunity to tell our stories in a more in-depth way and tell new stories that we may not have had the resources to tell otherwise.”

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by John Consolie

Nothing in my life has been as freeing as the realization that not everyone is going to love, like or approve of me.

As hundreds of Catholic content creators descend on Rome for the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers, it’s worth asking: What’s the best way to evangelize online?

The editors of 'America' have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged better than others.

On Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV addressed a crowd of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers about the responsibilities and challenges of their ministry.

“We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, following a deadly mass shooting that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer.

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus, by Jackson Goodman

Fears of state espionage are surfacing again for Centro Prodh and other human rights groups in Mexico after legislators overhauled a suite of laws in security, military, telecommunications and intelligence matters.

We need to pray for the person whose real identity and full story we do not know. Because that is everyone.

Drama can teach us active listening and public speaking, yes; but on a deeper level, it can shape our spiritual disposition.

“Unless there is a change to current practice, our community is slowly being strangled,” said the Rev. Aaron Wessman, vicar general and director of formation for the Glenmary Home Missioners, a small Catholic order ministering in rural America.

For the past 34 years, Andrew Goh has ridden his scooter around Singapore to bring the Catholic faith to the elderly and housebound.

A Reflection for Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

A Reflection for the Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Julian Navarro

Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez was one of several community leaders who joined to open the Family Assistance Program, aiding those affected by recent ICE raids.

On Friday, Pope Leo XIV issued a statement on the theme "Migrants, missionaries of hope."

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.

Many of my acquaintances have given up “reading about something that didn't happen.” But fiction has long-term and concrete value, both mentally and socially.