Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare and Leighlin said he hoped that the newly returned relic of St. Brigid would inspire people to show hospitality to asylum-seekers, at a time of growing protests about immigration in the country.

In a country disillusioned with Catholicism, Ireland’s St. Brigid is having a moment.

John W. Donohue, S.J., an associate editor of America from 1972 to 2007, was described by one Jesuit on staff as "a living rule. Were the Society of Jesus ever to lose its Constitutions, we would need only look to him to see how our life should be lived.”

St. Angela of Foligno was a medieval Franciscan mystic whose devotion to the side wound of Christ shows that we worship God not only with our minds but with our bodies.

In 'Katherine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision,' the historian Margaret McGuinness has performed another valuable service to American Catholic history.

Thomas Aquinas's 'Summa Theologiae' is perhaps the most important philosophical/theological work in Christian history. Why didn't the Angelic Doctor finish it?