On July 1, Vincent Rougeau, the dean of Boston College Law School, will become the next president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

In his address to Vatican ambassadors, Pope Francis said that the pandemic “set before us a choice: either to continue on the road we have followed until now or to set out on a new path.”

Whether it was the power of her prayers or her T-cells that did it, 116-year-old French nun Lucile Randon has survived COVID-19.

The Vatican is calling for a new paradigm of care for older people after what it calls the "massacre" wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately killed people living in nursing homes.

This year, World Marriage Day, observed annually on the second Sunday of February, will be celebrated Feb. 14, which also is the feast of St. Valentine and which since the eighth century has been a celebration of love and affection.

The Book of Ruth tells an important story in the history of Israel—but also reminds us to take seriously the lives of ordinary people—villagers, immigrants, married people, widows and the poor.