The four churchwomen chose to stay and to suffer, as St. Romero had once said, “the same fate as the poor.”

A longtime historian of Los Angeles explores and deconstructs the mythical city of boosters, developers and "perpetual reinvention."

'The root of Spiritism...is the diseased moral condition of the age,' one Catholic author wrote.

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

There is nothing unprecedented in recent decades about close presidential elections—in fact, they’re almost always close these days—and there is also nothing new in a delay in finding out the winner.

What role does religion have to play for a leader facing his darkest hours? In the midst of civil war, in the valley of despair, Abraham Lincoln grappled with this question.