When I was growing up, the impending arrival of Lent brought on great anxiety over what to give up — soda? chocolate? or most drastically, all sweets?

This week, we talk with Mireille Twayigira, a Jesuit Refugee Service Education Advocate.

In this episode, we look at the reforms the U.S. Catholic Bishops drafted after the sexual abuse crisis of 2002. How did these new rules change things for Catholics in parishes around the country?

A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry O’Connell and I update you on what has been happening since the sexual abuse summit.

Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona moved the Casa Alitas shelter for asylum seekers to the monastery in January. Their previous location in Tucson was not big enough to accommodate the influx of asylum seekers.

A campaign by faith-based investors and investment networks, spearheaded by a New York congregation of women religious, led the nation's largest consumer bank to announce it intended to stop investing in private prison firms.

By next year, Jewish people everywhere will know what World War II-era Pope Pius XII did -- and didn't -- do to save Jewish lives during the worst ethnic cleansing in human history.

When it comes to moral and spiritual choices, there are no inconsequential decisions.

The court imposed a six-month suspended prison sentence on him, meaning he will not have to spend time in prison.

Gary Pomerantz's detailed exploration of Bob Cousy's career touches on the heroic moments and the bitter failures of the Boston Celtics, including a shameful history of racial prejudice.

A Catholic News Service contributor in Caracas, Venezuela, was taken by military counterintelligence officials after his home was raided early March 6.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould resigned from her post in the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 12 over what she called pressure to go easy on bribery and fraud charges against the Quebec-based multinational engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.

If you picture a dark-winged figure tempting Jesus in the desert, you reduce the real power of evil. Why? Because you have removed the devil’s greatest advantage: the darkness of confusion.

A compromise to protect Dreamers and T.P.S. recipients “must not be achieved at the expense of other immigrant children and families,” said Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez in testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

The sides also that said agreements will be reached by consensus and that those agreements will be the foundation of what the talks produce.

There is a growing awareness about solitary confinement, a practice affecting 60,000 to 100,000 people in U.S. prisons.

Women religious in India who spoke up against the clergy who abused nuns claim that they are being treated as outcasts and appealing to the Vatican for protection.

Cardinal George Pell of Australia's appeal of his conviction on sexual abuse charges has been fast-tracked to June so it can be heard. He is presently in jail and by the time his appeal is decided, he will have been imprisoned for 3 months.

This week's guest is Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble.