Pope Francis told journalists, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!”

Mary is known most as “mother,” while many women today are single longer or single mothers.

You don’t earn heaven on earth—and you don’t earn it in purgatory either.

The saints do not change God’s mind, but they do give us some insight into the mystery of God.

Finding faith after an unexpected death.

“Lutherans and Catholics are on the way to greater unity," says Martin Marty.