My parents found ways to make each other miserable towards the end of their marriage, but they also had times of deep love.

He prayed for people across the globe, and especially for the people of Aleppo.

“There are more martyrs in the world today than in the early centuries of Christianity,” Francis told thousands of pilgrims.

With the death of Father Fitzmyer, the biblical guild has lost another giant.

As Advent hurtles towards a close, it is my hope that our readings have illuminated the freedom we find in the commitment to prayer.

Reformers might rail against sacred images, but, at Christmas, the world turns Catholic to gaze upon the Christ child.

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.

The relationship with Christ that we cultivate through prayer is grounded in his complete understanding of who we are, down to speaking our very name.

No king has ever calmed these waters.

¿Cuántas veces esa es la mejor instrucción que podemos recibir? ¿Cuántas veces lo que más nos falta es detenernos a mirar, a contemplar? Es la interiorización de las cosas lo que nos sostiene verdaderamente en los caminos de la vida.

The 19th century witnessed an intriguing range of tsars, from reformist to reactionary or a combination of both.

Maura Clarke might appear to have been a loser in the fight for human dignity. Not so.

A hospice chaplain learns that people carry burdensome secrets and regrets, and the prospect of dying makes them want to unload them.

As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.

The March for Life, the annual gathering of pro-life activists, clergy and civic leaders, will take place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27.

In an unexpected diplomatic initiative to consolidate the fragile peace accord in Colombia, Pope Francis on Dec. 14 brought together the country's president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his archrival, former president Senator Álvaro Uribe, a strong opponent of the accord.