It is inspiring to see how the people are allowing the challenges of their community to function as inspiration rather than reason for complaint.

Life in a multicultural parish is like a marriage: It can only work if people are listening to each other.

Church leaders need to reckon with the fact that many people my age don’t feel that they need the institutional church to help them live happy, spiritually fulfilling lives.

New data offers insight into the beliefs of U.S. Catholics ahead of the midterm elections, with differences among white and Hispanic Catholics .

“Haitian people are living in what may be easily compared to hell,” Jean Denis Saint Félix, S.J., says. “No electricity, no running water, no transportation because there is no fuel. Unhealthy conditions everywhere.”

Christ brought about a separation, rather than integration, of the spiritual and political.