"Joan Chittister," by Tom Roberts; "Two Dogs and a Parrot," by Joan Chittister

"The World's Oldest Church," by Michael Peppard

If you think these artificial modifications to the human person sound worrying, you are not alone.

Business, too, is a kind of formation, for better or worse.

There is danger in government-imposed silence.

What my disability developed later in life taught me

Muslims and Catholics joined in Friday prayers at the mosque in the Normandy town where an elderly priest was slain on July 26. The killing of 85-year-old Rev. Jacques Hamel as he celebrated morning Mass sent shockwaves around France and deeply touched many among the nation’s five million Musl

Grahamstown, the small university city that hosts South Africa’s annual National Festival of the Arts each year, is historically a frontier town—the meeting place in the 19th century between the British Empire and the Xhosa nation, before the latter was annexed, creating the present-day

Seventy-two percent of U.S. residents and 85 percent of Mexico’s residents oppose the construction of a wall along the border.

Maybe that's the subconscious appeal of sports: how we might tempt death through a game.

Union in Communion“Longing for Communion,” by Timothy P. O’Malley (7/18), presents the concrete situation confronted by many Catholic-Lutheran partners today in the United States. The starting point for a pastoral approach to these couples ought to be the union, however imperfect,

All the baptized, whatever their particular state of life, are nevertheless running the same course of Christian discipleship.

A small independent Catholic college in Escondido, Calif., has joined the opponents of a state law that would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students by depriving colleges of state and federal student-aid funds. The president of John Paul the Great University, Derr

With the close of both the Republican and Democratic conventions, the faith of both vice presidential candidates has been thrown into the spotlight.Late last year, a very public dispute between Catholic Charities agencies in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Indiana’s governor, Mike Pence, o

For decades the idea of a single-payer health care system for all has been by turns glorified and vilified.

"I found God's grace in artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles."

“It’s not true, it’s not right, it’s not just to say that Islam is terrorist,” Pope Francis said on the plane from Krakow to Rome on July 31. • On July 25, the leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christian Church warned of increased attacks on Christians—37 sectar

Home water, why?Cold sunlight, new heavenstrikes the shallows of white,wavering tissue, new earth.They are here,gaining the still pool,a million salmon bones.Soul flood. Head down.Study this hieroglyph, stunned. Metal-skinned swimmerscrash from the hurtling channelto this blinding delta,where m