The equal protection clause requires laws to be, at minimum, rationally based.

No danger of rubbing shoulders with the 4,000 people in $1,000-a-week cabins down below.

What is different about Jesuit higher education?

The rain in the woods where the fire eruptedmonths ago is abundance too soon, or too late,the blaze causing harm long after.The promise is fulfilled,but not mercifully, the watercoursesdeepening underfoot, charcoal and slurry and soil.The water has no color. It is the empty placebefore the first wor

Pope Francis surprised a group of teenagers on April 23 in St. Peter’s Square, telling them that happiness is not a downloadable app and then hearing the confessions of 16 teens as he joined 150 other priests offering the sacrament of reconciliation. • Bishop Ägidius Zsifkovics of Austri

A young Syrian couple and their three young children, including a 2-month-old baby suffering from hydrocephalus and spina-bifida, are among 101 vulnerable refugees scheduled to take an Alitalia plane from Beirut to Rome in the early morning hours of May 3 to begin a new life in Italy.Mouhammad Amin

A canonical inquiry into the life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, will begin soon and extend to the end of the year, according to the Archdiocese of New York, which is sponsoring her sainthood cause. The names of 256 people had been submitted as potential eyewitnesses to

“We cannot ignore the risks that these new forms of communication pose for children and adolescents,” Francis says.

When ISIS extremists rolled across Iraq’s Nineveh Plain in 2014, tens of thousands of Christians fled to Kurdish-controlled areas of Iraq. They still wait in limbo in crowded camps. Their only certainty is that whatever happens to them, a group of Dominican nuns will be at their side. “W

A new assisted-suicide bill is opposed by an impressive coalition of religious voices.

"Sadly, I personally know black Catholics whose personal experience has led them to believe that their black lives do not really matter to the church."

The answer to the world’s most pressing questions starts with compassion.

“Gun violence particularly devastates African-American communities in Ohio. ”

Jesuit Refugee Service has a very specific answer to Pope Francis’ call to put mercy on the leading edge of a church reaching out to the peripheries. The answer is education.With a campaign called “Mercy in Motion,” J.R.S. is trying to raise $35 million this year so that by 2020 it

We can’t always have what we want from the church, or even what we feel we need.

Francis' visit to a refugee camp was a message to Europe and the rest of us.

The current regulatory environment makes tax avoidance a primary component of global corporate strategy.

Vin Scully, Southern California's soundtrack to summertime, is retiring.

Over the years, we choose, time and again, to brave the wrath of children awakened too early on a weekend morning, in order that we might continue to attend Mass as a family.

One day after Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, spoke at Georgetown University, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington celebrated a University Mass for Life for college students at a nearby Catholic church, encouraging them to stand up for God’s gift of human life. A Georg