In founding the Lumen Christi Institute in 1997, Thomas Levergood created a model for engaging the secular disciplines with the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Walter F. Mondale was the embodiment of a kind of decency and civility that has all but disappeared from the American political scene.

Hans Küng was first in flair and media savviness among 20th-century theologians.

Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain

Rev. Enda McDonagh served the Irish church as a compassionate priest and renowned theologian. He died on Feb. 24.

A prominent figure in United Nations efforts to help women in Africa escape poverty, Margaret Snyder was inspired by her parents and by Catholic mentors from her hometown.