An Ethiopian family arrived in Malta as refugees. A Jesuit community welcomed them.

Colleges and universities around the country find themselves struggling to discern how best to negotiate free speech on their campuses

The truth or foolishness of Obama’s hopeful vision of our country rests in the choices we will make.

Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.

These people's lives gave us a glimpse of something meaningful, something that liberated or encouraged us.

The holiday special was the product of a Jewish producer from San Francisco and a Mexican-American Catholic whose mother brought him across the border in the 1920s.

We become aware there is a much bigger story at work.

None of our intense political and social divisions are going to matter come Thursday at midnight.

Today the chances of selling a Christian-themed, anti-commercialism Christmas special would seem just as slim as they were in the 1960s.