That journalists, in carrying out their work, may always be motivated by respect for truth and a strong sense of ethics:

Julio Quintana’s new film, The Vessel, chronicles the story of a small Latin American town a decade after the loss of almost 50 schoolchildren in a tsunami. Millennial writer Christopher White spoke with Quintana about his inspiration for the film and faith in an age of skepticism for Crux: The film is also steeped with… Read More Film and Faith in an Age of Skepticism

John Allen writes, With Pope’s cardinal picks, Bernardin’s ‘seamless garment’ is back: Pope Francis on Sunday engineered what may prove to be a seismic shift in the Catholic hierarchy in the United States, elevating not one or two, but a full three new American cardinals seen as belonging to the centrist, non-cultural warrior wing of… Read More Pope Francis Sends Powerful Message with 3 New US Cardinals

via Vatican News: The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the XV General Assembly of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops taking place in October 2018 will be “Young people, faith and vocational discernment.”… Describing the theme “as an expression of the Church’s pastoral concern for the young,” the statement said the chosen topic follows on… Read More Pope Francis: Theme for the 2018 Synod Will Be on Young People

Pope Francis recently spoke about using prayer, rather than alcohol or other drugs, in response to spiritual desolation: Spiritual desolation is something that happens to all of us: it can be stronger or weaker … but that feeling of spiritual darkness, of hopelessness, mistrust, lacking the desire to live, without seeing the end of the… Read More Pope Francis on Overcoming Spiritual Desolation