Many dioceses are dropping mask requirements and social distancing rules for fully vaccinated worshippers, relying on an honor system as pandemic restrictions ease further.

Bob Dylan, who turns 80 on May 24, expanded my musical and conceptual horizons from my college days onward.

The essential Merton is all of these books taken together. Read them all, and in this order, if you can.

If “canceling” is a means of banishing to the shadows something that causes discomfort that is precisely what we are doing to migrants at our border.

The pope‘s aim is to involve the whole church at diocesan, national and continental levels through a process of “listening and discernment” on the important theme of synodality.

Refugees are often seen through a political lens, writes Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, but the crisis at the Mexico border should remind us of the church’s essential ministry to those fleeing violence and poverty.

What’s going on in the Holy Land—and what’s at the root of the problem? Why should Catholics care?

The decades since the Second Vatican Council and the declaration "Nostra Aetate" have seen much fruit in the form of Jewish-Christian collaboration and dialogue.

In 'The Last Brahmin,' Luke Nichter presents Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as a man who, from cradle to grave, loved his family and his country, the ideals of both of which he tried to live up to his entire life.

‘Lifeblood of the Parish’ is an ethnographic look at Italian-American communal rituals in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The sacraments took place within two socially distanced school Masses on May 13 and 14.

Working in labor and delivery can be a beautiful job. But there are trying times too.

My dad had always been a God-like figure to me.

Though an about-face by the Biden administration brought welcome news to advocates for refugee resettlement, the process raised concerns about the political calculus at work.

To overcome polarization and ideological partisanship—both in the church and in the culture—requires attention to diverse opinions and a variety of perspectives. America's inclusive approach is an attempt to do just that.

The humanitarian needs were already huge without Covid and without the aggression,” Bassam Nasser, who leads the Gaza office for Catholic Relief Services, told America on May 20. “You can imagine, when you add those two challenges, the crisis will become huge.”