“It has just expanded my worldview and deepened my spirituality," Susan Braddock said of her six years as board chair. ”That doesn’t happen that often in life.”

With “Fiducia Supplicans,” Pope Francis turns the church’s attention to the pastoral needs of same-sex couples. We can chart this development over the past two years.

“If we interpret it from a social point of view, gluttony is perhaps the most dangerous vice, which is killing the planet,” Pope Francis said in his weekly general audience.

'Exodus 90' is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.

George Dunne, S.J., never backed down from a fight or a perceived injustice in a long career as a priest, academic and activist.

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Pope Francis deplored “the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood” and called on the international community “to prohibit this practice universally.”

Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the Church should reconsider the celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests.

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis reminds us that "contemplating God is beautiful, but it is only fruitful if we take a risk, the risk of the service of bringing God to others."

A multiyear Vatican investigation into Archbishop John Nienstedt found he acted ‘imprudently’ but not criminally under canon law.