The heart of St. Roque lay in the display case in front of me. It still held the power of life and evangelization, announcing its presence at the very moment when I most needed faith and consolation.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, spoke out against President Donald Trump's proposal to deport more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.

Cancellations announced by the Vatican suggest the pope will be hospitalized for several days.

While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the lives of the poor tolerable.

for I too take my bearings in a manner unfamiliar to solid daylit creatures

I lean into the gale

'Hockey Priest: Father David Bauer and the Spirit of the Canadian Game' shows the interplay of spirituality and sport in the world that Father Bauer helped create.

'A Ministry of Risk,' a collection of the writings and speeches of the late Phil Berrigan (1923-2002), is a provocative anthology destined to leave most readers bewildered, challenged and perhaps even a little angry.

The novelist and memoirist André Aciman chronicles his formative year in Rome as a teenager in 'Roman Year.'

'American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her desire for others to understand the struggle she faced.

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and perspectives, have written three extremely different books on aging. Yet even with their differences, they agree on the big points.

America reviewed a range of films over the last year, including many of the awards-show contenders.

We cannot wish away reality with counterfactual speculation--nor should we try.

The whole semantic field of 'tool' and 'instrument' is fraught with negative moral connotations. St. Ignatius’ writings , however, show a different tendency. There, 'instrument' both serves as a central spiritual category and bears a positive connotation.

From both the Vatican and the pope, we have heard a consistent message: A.I. is a tool that is created by and shapes human culture. Thus far, however, we have not seen much in the way of specific recommendations. We believe that this is an important next step for Francis as he emerges as a leading global voice in conversations about A.I.

To understand the significance of the Jubilee and its seven-centuries-old tradition in the Catholic Church, it is necessary first to recall its biblical origins and the historical events that have shaped it.

How do Catholic parents navigate the balance between youth sports and Sunday obligation?

A Reflection for Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Connor Hartigan

More than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations have sued the Trump administration’s to stop ICE agents from making arrests in churches. Solidarity requires us to do more to help the vulnerable.

JD Vance tries to use Aquinas’s 'order of love' to support his political ideology, but is the ethical order he proposes actually consistent with the ethic of Aquinas or, more broadly, with the principles of Catholic social teaching?