Cardinal Gerhard Muller said church law has not specified exactly what should be done with "cremains."

A desire to return to nature need not be labeled “un-Christian.” Ashes to ashes, after all.

The conversation introduces the new Superior General to Jesuits and the wider Ignatian family around the world.

Why Pope Francis' comments are both business as usual and something worth talking about.

One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?

The seminary will buy back more than 13,000 square feet of space from Boston College.