Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Thomas P. Melady, who served in several diplomatic posts and continued to play a role as "citizen-scholar" long past the age when most people would have retired, died on Jan. 6. He was 86.Melady died at his Washington home of a brain tumor, which docto

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New rules to promote greater appreciation of religious orders' distinctive missions.

This morning, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the mother church of the Jesuit order, the church of the Gesù, to mark the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus and to give thanks for the enrollment of the first Jesuit to be ordained a priest, Peter Faber, S.J., in the list of the saints. In his