A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.

A Korean War hero, the Rev. Emil Kapaun is now a candidate for sainthood, but the process is long and complicated.

Does canceling the sacraments show a lack of faith? Jesuits in the 16th century didn’t think so.

Mass attendance and Catholic affiliation have been eroding steadily since the 1970s for all income brackets, but the sharpest decline has been among the two bottom economic quartiles.

As a reporter, it is my job to follow along as individuals and communities try to figure out who they want to be and how they want to live.

When John Berryman and Robert Giroux met at Columbia University in 1932, they would not have expected to forge a decades-long friendship that would result in over a dozen literary classics.