Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, saying: “The catechism is not set in stone. One may also question what it says.”

But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Rachel Lu

We all live in the dark, in the dust. If we are going to assail evil where we find it, what of the evil we do not see in ourselves?

“If Putin says something on Tuesday, the Russian Patriarch has to say the same thing on Wednesday but just putting the word ‘God’ into the sentence,” David Nazar, S.J., said in an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.

“We need her,” Mary Novak, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, said at the rally about Judge Jackson. “Network’s got your back.”

In recent years, a new kind of hostility has developed toward any hint of faith in the practice of health care. But the idea that health care must be a religion-free zone is absolutely bizarre.

Even though old age can weaken the body, Pope Francis said, it can also sharpen a person’s connection to God.

A Reflection of the Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Gloria Purvis

Last week in Chicago, bishops from throughout the United States and a few from other parts of the world engaged in dialogue with theologians, scholars and journalists about the state of the church.

James Martin, S.J., shares the lessons he learned as a young Jesuit about accompaniment.

In honor of Women’s History Month, “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” is exploring questions about what it means to be a woman, from a Catholic perspective.

One of America's finest literary talents, Leonard Feeney, S.J., rose to national prominence in the 1940s—but not for his prose or poetry.

For decades, the United States has responded to homelessness with small change. It’s time to think big and treat housing as a human right.

A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Jim McDermott

This tax season, Americans have an unexpected figure to thank for one of their most-used deductions. She wasn’t an accountant, a lawyer or even a politician, but an actual saint.

The Vatican czar on life issues, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, is on a mission to bring Pope Francis’ holistic pro-life vision to the United States.

Leonard Feeney, writes Avery Dulles, S.J., in this 1978 encomium, should be remembered for more than his actions that led to his excommunication. He was a gifted orator, apologist, writer and counselor.

Why one Orthodox patriarch can denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even while another supports it

Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path of truth, justice and healing of Canada’s Indigenous communities.