The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act heading to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature will provide relief to Americans in need amid the pandemic, but it lacks “protections for the unborn,” the U.S. bishops said.

If you think you’ve got him, you don’t. Indeed, you don’t have him until he has you!

Natural Family Planning is too important to be relegated to marriage preparation class, writes Ellen Holloway of the Charting Toward Intimacy podcast. We need to talk about it early and often.

Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain

In his first general audience since returning from Iraq, Pope Francis said: “ I saw around me the joy of welcoming Christ’s messenger; I saw the hope of being open to a horizon of peace and fraternity.”

Emil Kapaun’s selfless actions during combat and imprisonment demonstrated extraordinary heroism, not just in fighting the armed enemies, but also in what the Vatican calls “offering of one’s life” for other human beings.

Fresh off the papal visit to Iraq, Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell joins host Colleen Dulle on “Inside the Vatican” to discuss what it was like to travel with the pope on his riskiest trip yet.

The antinatalist movement might strike many people as misguided, but considering its arguments can lead Christians to examine vexing questions around our understanding of eternal punishment.

Experimenting with virtual liturgies need not be a cause for despair but instead an invitation from the Lord to try something new.

The “messiah” of the title is Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader, orator, organizer and, in 1969, a 21-year-old murder victim at the hands of Chicago police.

In Miami Beach, faith leaders and the fire department have joined resources to expedite getting shots in the arms of older adults starting with the homebound and those in low-income housing.

When someone is courageous enough to share with the world that she seriously considered taking her own life because she didn’t see a way out, we need to honor that honesty and vulnerability.

On March 8—International Women’s Day—Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Jesuits, announced the creation of the Commission on the Role and Responsibilities of Women in the Society of Jesus.

Everyone has a family that involves some painful history, and few of us would want to tell Oprah and the whole world about it.

The mystery of the Triune God goes beyond the confines of sex or gender.

In an hour-long press conference on the plane to Rome, Francis spoke about how he felt he had “come back to life again” during the visit, after more than a year in “prison” when he could not meet people.

Rules are important, but they only exist to safeguard loving relationships. The Catechism is not a penal code, but our guide to a life lived in love. 

What does Jesus do with panicked hearts? He reveals that God’s desire for us exceeds our desire for God!

Pope Francis concluded his three-day trip to Iraq with a stadium Mass in which he said the country “will always remain with me, in my heart.” America's Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell, reports.

On the final day of his historic trip to Iraq, Pope Francis said, “To cleanse our hearts, we need to dirty our hands, to feel accountable and not to simply look on as our brothers and sisters are suffering.”