The results of our survey reveal that many divisions within the church run along political lines.

Christian love of neighbor, natural law and God’s eternal law all figure in the desire not to murder.

How should the church go about updating tradition and articulating a more realistic framework?

The August issue of America featured the results of a comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholics by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, commissioned by America Media. Please see this current issue for more results from the survey about politics, church finances and other issues.

As Nicaragua prepares for a general election in November, Mr. Ortega has ramped up a broad repression of dissenting voices. Could the Catholic Church be his next target?

There’s still a lot of confusion among Catholics about the sex abuse crisis. And with good reason.

Twenty years after U.S. military action in Afghanistan began, a look back at America's coverage of our nation's longest war.

“One of the problems of racism, as is the case with so many sins, is that the sinner doesn’t recognize their part in the sin.”

The Israelites are quite like us. They intend to offer a response that is steadfast but their own humanity, under the siege of sin, fails them.

I reported on recovery efforts after that 2010 Haitian earthquake. This is what I learned (and why you should care).

In his weekly audience, Pope Francis explained the Law's role in two stages of our lives: before we become believers in Jesus Christ and after receiving the faith.

While the Taliban have promised not to shed any blood, some locals fear that the Islamist regime will lead to persecutions and violence.

“Let us not forget that a faith that is not inculturated is not authentic,” Francis told the Latin American Confederation of Religious.

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remains hospitalized, on a ventilator, “in serious but stable condition” with COVID-19, a spokesman said late Aug. 17.

The video insists that vaccines are safe, effective and an “act of love.” It features Pope Francis as well six cardinals and archbishops from North, Central and South America.

“We have to be promoting the common good, and this is the one of the ways that we do it,” Bishop Stowe said in an interview with America.

A new Catholic secondary school in the Archdiocese of Boston will combine virtual instruction and in-person activities. The founder of Lumen Verum Academy, Thomas W. Carroll, writes about this new model.

This is the first time Homeboy Industries has received this level of funding, enabling a new level of capacity to serve people who have been in prison and involved in gangs.

The Jesuits, who have been in Afghanistan since 2004, have suspended their mission in the country “indefinitely.”

Our invasions of Afghanistan and Vietnam may have different beginnings, but their ends show that we are capable of repeating basic mistakes, writes Ryan Di Corpo.