The West is willfully blind toward the mass killing of religious minorities in the Middle East, religious freedom advocates say.

Someone had come running out of the business office yelling that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.

"Whatever one’s feelings about McLaughlin’s politics or rectitude, it is hard to deny his righteous star power."

Georgetown University has taken several steps to come to terms with its slaveholding past.

“When so many people rightfully were running out to save their lives, other people were running in.”

We stayed there through the night, waiting for reports from “the great out there.”

All Catholics have a duty to “to raise up the frustration that drives the violence, whether it be loss of economic opportunity, jobs, education.”

Why did you welcome it into the house?

Besides having a great mind, Jefferson had a great ego—also for good and ill.

Orsi traces the rise of “absence” to the religious debates of the 16th century.

American women are having fewer children than at any other time on record.

These two women, I believe, were more than simply brave.

The Class SystemRe “Commending Phoebe” (Editorial, 8/29): While I am in strong favor of women's ordination to the diaconate, I fear this will only lead to expanding the “class system” that already seems to exist in the diaconate office. Already we have a distinctive separ

In order to come to terms with the sale of 272 slaves to two Louisiana businessmen in 1838, Georgetown University and the Jesuits of Maryland should offer a formal apology and enact a series of reforms. They include renaming buildings, offering financial aid to the descendants of those slaves and co

To promote Catholic social teaching and ensure appropriate assistance to vulnerable people—especially victims of war, refugees and the sick—Pope Francis has established a new Vatican office. In a letter initiated by him and published by the Vatican on Aug. 31, the pope said the new Dicas

We are anxious to find out whether the candidates can engage in the give-and-take with journalists that is essential in a functioning democracy.

Appalled by both Hillary and the Donald?

The major-party presidential nominees have dramatically different visions for this country.

Louis Sako called for Muslims to "show the real face of Islam."