A snippet from some impromptu remarks caused a stir, but the pope’s point was that all religions are ways of communicating with God, not that they are all “the same.”

Father Dan Corrou says all Jesuit Refugee Service operations have been suspended. Many of the agency’s employees, like thousands of other residents of southern Lebanon, are fleeing toward Beirut or making plans to.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill

A number of states will vote on expanding or maintaining access to abortion this November, but voters in Arizona will also weigh in on a ballot initiative restricting immigration.

A relic of Blessed Acutis was taken to Manchester for veneration, drawing 5,000 pilgrims in four days of prayer and an all-night vigil.

Rooney’s novel ends up as an overlong interlude, poised between significant moments, not substantial enough to compose its own movement.

Missouri plans to proceed with the lethal injection of Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24, despite doubts about his guilt and widespread backlash.

In a talk to leaders of popular grassroots movements, Pope Francis said, “It is often precisely the wealthiest who oppose the realization of social justice or integral ecology out of sheer greed.”

Most of my most meaningful meals have been prepared by friends born outside of the United States and who made a courageous journey to be here.

I am ashamed to say it, but Trump’s claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets reminds me so much of the way Haitians are treated in my home country, the Dominican Republic.