Today I would like to speak to you about my Apostolic Journey in Budapest and in Slovakia. I would summarize it as follows: it was a pilgrimage of prayer, a pilgrimage to the roots, a pilgrimage of hope.

John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington since 2010, announced Sept. 22 that he will be stepping down from the role he described as “an honor and a privilege” at the end of June.

From 1995: Mother Angelica, devout and well-inten­tioned as she may be, has some big problems.

Stepping outside of our own particular worldview to encounter another person’s story can be scary—but the classics can help.

“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil,” the pope said to the Jesuits of Slovakia on his recent trip.

Taking women seriously as students, staff and faculty means that the Jesuit institution considers them as essential to its mission.