The pope’s visit comes only two years after the Vatican acknowledged that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys.

A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

In his General Audience address on Aug. 28 centered on the plight of migrants, Pope Francis said, “The Lord is with our migrants...not with those who repel them.“

Tania Tetlow, the first woman and first layperson to serve as president of Fordham University, has broken barriers and navigated controversies amid rising tensions on campus related to the Israel-Hamas war.

A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by William Gualtiere

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, by Julian Navarro