From John A. Coleman, S.J.: "the point of being a Christian is to find a place of evident freedom, courage, joy and hope."

The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.

We Americans would be very well served (and it is, of course, a Catholic motif) by some massive injections of Whitman's robust sense of a relational self.

On the Feast of the Annunciation, Helen Prejean, C.S.J., reflects on encounters with everyday annunciations.

A poem for 'Mater et Magistra'

In These Pages: From 1961 and 1966

In the epilogue of his latest book, "The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler," Peter Eisner offers an interesting insight on the men who held the seat of Peter during the 20th century.

The oft-byzantine particulars of religious practice can be almost impossible to communicate effectively.

For secular Washington, Benedict was the pope of no. For those who listened, Benedict is more the pope of and, connecting charity and truth, faith and reason.

Though we cannot create an absolutely safe world, we can create a safer world.