Princeton University is dropping the requirement for knowing Latin and Greek to major in Classics. Its decision is a frightening one and augurs ill for the future of the field.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell discuss the fallout of Cardinal Marx’s offer to resign.

I’m tired of funerals, the pallbearing of myself

No songs, no vicar, but why no humanist?

The narrator of 'The Great Gatsby,' Nick Carraway, is the focus of Michael Farris Smith's new novel, 'Nick.'

Brendan Hodge's debut novel ‘If You Can Get It’ centers on two young women seeking meaning along the axes of work, love and faith.

With the arrival of summer, America asked its readers to give Pope Francis a summer reading recommendation, “beach read” or otherwise.

The United States has dithered on establishing any policy to help bring an end to a conflict now in its eighth decade.

The Supreme Court ruled that the city of Philadelphia violated the Constitution by limiting its relationship with a Catholic foster care agency over the group's refusal to certify same-sex couples as foster parents.

Juneteenth is more than a day of celebration. It is a challenge to be accountable to one another as members of a beloved community.

This historic and traditional music reflects the experience, thoughts, sorrows, joys and spirituality of our enslaved and free ancestors.

“My hope is that the church can use the immense power of its storytelling to move toward more compassion, more kindness.”

A tribute to the shot that may be saving the world.

A graduate of a Jesuit high school in conversation with his English teacher from three decades ago on Ignatian and Jesuit education.

“You can’t understand [border realities] by talking to government officials. You have to talk to the people who are working with migrants and hear about the suffering.”

Creating national norms was never the intent behind a proposal to write a new statement on the Eucharist, said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine.