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Not so long ago, I was visiting a dying woman. To console and encourage their mother, her daughters, who were also present, ...
Pope Francis, 88, will visit Rome’s Regina Coeli prison “in a private way” on Holy Thursday afternoon if his health condition allows it.
The church remembers Christ’s death on a cross in a spiritual and sacramental way during Holy Week, but some people actually experience the Passion in a tangible and personal way in their very lives.
For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and ...
In many other places, circumstances barely hint at the Easter Solemnity of the Lord’s Resurrection. If you live in a place ...
You don’t do that!” That is what Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Jesuits, would say to President Trump about ...
Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous,” said Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in a meeting with ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America's editors for many years, but they all read 'Gatsby.' Everyone reads ...
Asked whether the pope would meet with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert who will be in Rome for the Easter ...
The root cause of the chronic U.S. trade imbalance is macroeconomic: We save too little relative to our major trading ...
All over the world, Christ is again being crucified in the bodies of human rights lawyers and journalists who stand up for justice in the face of criminality, whether from gangs or governments.
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...