This year marks the centennial of D. W. Griffith’s masterpiece, “The Birth of a Nation.” Who cares? Or who should? After all, it’s really only an embarrassing antique. Film historians have long extolled its artistic innovation as the foundation of the modern motion picture. S

Catholics of different political stripes do agree on important things.

One of the more demanding and absorbing conversations I have been part of was a recent discussion of polarization in the American Catholic Church.

The Vatican rsquo s ldquo mandate rdquo in which it oversaw the running of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has ended mdash two years earlier than anticipated nbsp In a joint statement today from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the LCWR both parties said that th

Experience prevents me from saying that "anything can happen" in the 2016.

The one-gun household is disappearing from American life along with one-car garages single-family homes with single family bathrooms and other bygone markers of the middle class That seems to be the best explanation for polling data showing that the percentage of homes with guns has dropped sign

Beginning the second leg of his South Asian journey, Pope Francis did not mince words when he addressed government and church leaders of the Philippines on Jan. 16. A day after his triumphal arrival from Sri Lanka, he called on them to combat and eliminate “scandalous” social inequalitie

Pope Francis didn rsquo t mince his words when he addressed the state authorities and church leaders of the Philippines He called on them to combat and eliminate ldquo the scandalous rdquo social inequalities and injustices as well as the corruption that is widespread in this land where more th

Immigration on the coasts and housing boom of the Sun Belt bolster regions' political clout

Family UnityI second the Rev. Robert P. Imbelli in “Family in Focus” (12/8). Father Imbelli emphasizes the importance of prayer in this process of discernment, and I would add Scripture to that. I am reminded of the Gospel reading at my wedding, “That they may be one,” from J