Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese's column for Religion News Service, "Signs of the Times," appears regularly at National Catholic Reporter. In 2014, Reese was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S ...

To walk us through what happens next, I want to bring in Father Tom Reese of Religion News Service. Welcome back to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, and my condolences on a sad day in the church.

REES, THOMAS HOWARDThomas Howard Rees, 70, Littleton. Beloved father of James, Danny, William, and Teresa Rees, and Debra (Jake) Lievens; brother of Robert Rees; grandfather of Tarren and Tanner ...

“I can no longer kid myself that death is a distant reality,” Father Thomas Reese, former editor in chief of America, writes.