On June 17, 2015, a 23-year-old white supremacist killed nine African-Americans during a Bible study at the historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church.

His renunciation did not come as a total surprise given the controversy that erupted in Chile following the priest’s controversial statements after his nomination.

Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?

This motley crew of high school students want to live an authentic life. They want to be known, by themselves and by others.

Francis may not pray in tongues, writes Austen Ivereigh, but no pope has ever identified as closely with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, nor been so keen to move it front and center of the church.

The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.

The treaty’s offhand attitude toward the non-European world stirred up resentments that lingered for decades.

Again, the bullet. Again, the agony. We are repeating the day over and over, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

John Sexton’s passion and commitment are infectious, and one cannot help hoping along with him that our universities will be able to realize the great aspirations that he has for them.

The number of U.S. parishes without resident pastors has leveled off to about 3,400, according to the latest data from CARA—but only after dioceses have closed down thousands of churches since 1990.

Joe Bonomo's well-written take on Roger Angell's musings on baseball.

A devotee of the opera, Brown eagerly gave tickets to his students, hoping to get them totally immersed in the arias he loved.

Bitcoin has value because people believe in it and evangelize it, and the more that value increases, the more incentive there is to evangelize it.

Do you have a “guilty pleasure” hymn that you love?

At a new residential complex in North Carolina, graduate students and adults with developmental disabilities share living quarters and meet in prayer.

Jesus’ determination to travel to Jerusalem is the pivot on which Luke’s Gospel turns.

Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.

Most Americans want Washington to change how it works. But attacking Washington is like punching into fog.

Taking up the proclamation of God’s reign placed the disciples in an unexpectedly rich relationship with God and the world.