It is inspiring to see how the people are allowing the challenges of their community to function as inspiration rather than reason for complaint.

Pope Francis reiterated the Holy See’s commitment to end the fighting and find a way to obtain “a just peace."

"A society that erases women from public life is a society that becomes impoverished," he said.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

Besides casting votes in the flashier congressional races, Catholic voters will get to speak up on any number of local and regional concerns through local ballot measures.

In their first private one-on-one conversation, the president of the Australian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B., told Pope Francis, “The church in Australia is alive!”

Leaders of the California Catholic Conference warn that passage of Proposition 1 in California would open the door to abortion at a level that far surpasses what was allowed under the Roe v. Wade decision.

Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders on Friday in calling for the great religions to work together for peace.

This selection from our conversations about the Trappist monk Thomas Merton is one of the fascinating threads in the book, which turned out to be about more than it seemed.