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Together with director James Franco, Paul Mariani set out to find the poet, Hart Crane.

The Vatican's moral advocacy has provoked criticism and even derision among some Italians.

Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.

Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said "there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter."

The Vatican and many of the Latin-rite bishops of India are not treating the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with justice, an Indian bishop said.

The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and America’s culture editor, will be honored with a Christopher Award on May 19.