Inspired by St. Francis of Assisi and by Pope Francis, 2,000 young adults met online to discuss making the economy more responsive to human dignity and more respectful of creation.

Cardinal Becciu is suing an Italian news magazine, claiming that his ruined reputation has eliminated his chances of becoming pope and will undermine the legitimacy of any future papal election.

The plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages, as well as an injunction to force the Vatican to release the names of more than 3,000 clerics who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, and all documents relating to those claims.

Following the release of the McCarrick report, Catholics are once again asking: What is the root cause of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis?

A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.

there is only one way to pray

Christ bursts into the manger, quickened into cows

Come to Yaa Gyasi's fiction, all you who are weary and burdened, and she will give you heartbreak.

Anne Tyler's new novel can help us realize that life often is not spectacular or about jumping from one big event to the next.

Those familiar with the Gilead story will find in Marilynne Robinson's latest novel another beautiful meditation on grace operative in spite of habits of despair and the social sins that feed them.

A longtime historian of Los Angeles explores and deconstructs the mythical city of boosters, developers and "perpetual reinvention."

If you think being a writer is nerve-wracking, try being a reviewer.

“It might be a good thing to discard this piece whose popularity is becoming unhealthy,” one early critic wrote.

'The root of Spiritism...is the diseased moral condition of the age,' one Catholic author wrote.

Hildegard von Bingen’s five ingredients for an abundant life.

A Korean War hero, the Rev. Emil Kapaun is now a candidate for sainthood, but the process is long and complicated.