VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Christian faith that does not disturb the powers that be and cannot generate a serious commitment to ...

Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute ...

Flying bishops, eminent birthdays and getting lost in translation: Funny stuff that Father James Martin heard inside the synod hall.

Doris Grumbach (1918-2022) was an American novelist, biographer, literary critic and essayist. She wrote for America many times between 1951 and 1973.

The cause for the canonization of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus, took an important step ...

What I saw at the U.S.-Mexico border reminded me of the solidarity with migrants so often lacking in our country today.

Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” scandalized Italian audiences. But it was a group of Jesuit priests who were determined to ...

The freed hostages also said they hoped the incoming Trump administration would work with the outgoing Biden administration ...

I am rather fond of my native land and her robust and quirky republican traditions, but Jesus did not preach democracy nor ...

We need to remember that even in the middle of dealing with whatever big thing is happening now: We are alive.

We have recently seen entire communities wiped off the map by wildfires fueled by ever-hotter weather. This has grave ...

A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty one may encounter when reading Scripture. A survey commissioned by the ...