Just about everyone is sick of the partisan rancor that radiates from Washington.

Callanan, a professor and novelist from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will be awarded the $25,000 Catholic literary prize.

You will not see the phrases “liberal Catholic” or “conservative Catholic” in the pages of America.

The conflict in Syria is a proxy war, not between the United States and Russia, as some American commentators have suggested, but between the two major powers vying for regional hegemony.

Civic engagement is not limited to voting.

It is clear that the president either has not yet read "Laudato Si'", or he simply disagrees with what the pontiff said.

Even though it is no longer a surprise, Pope Francis still makes news with his direct pastoral ministry, as he did in May, going door-to-door to bless homes in a public housing complex in the Roman suburbs.