More than half a million refugees have passed through Lesbos over the past year.

The church has a wider definition for “refugee” than most states.

An emotional Spence said this afternoon that critics went after him "full-court on the blogoshere” over the past few days.

It has been a devastating blow to Catholic school teachers who had counted on those pensions to supplement the Social Security checks they'll be getting.

In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis not only strongly affirms the traditional Christian ideal of marriage; he also opens doors to the progressive integration into the life of the church of those Catholic

“The Joy of Love” reaffirms teachings on marriage while facing today’s complicated reality.

On tax evasion and hidden wealth, we are awash in a “sea of criminality.”

The Indian government might have dispelled rumors of the alleged Good Friday crucifixion of the Salesian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil, but his brother, Mathew, still worries. “I am waiting for clear good news,” said Uzhunnalil, 73. Since his brother was kidnapped in Aden, Yemen, Uzhunnalil h

In 2016, the cup of bardolatry runneth over.

Freddie Gray died one year ago. The 25-year-old African-American man had been arrested for possessing what the Baltimore Police Department described as an illegal switchblade. The officers put him in handcuffs, locked him in the back of a police transport van and took him for what The Baltimore Sun

Lizzy Myers of Mansfield, Ohio, a 5-year-old girl who has a disease that is gradually rendering her blind and deaf, met the pope as part of her parents’ “visual bucket list,” during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 6. • The relics of St.

Reading for even just 20 minutes helps quiet my mind.

Social movements need great art.

I think of a line in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: “And if two of you are together, then there is a whole world, a world of living love.”

Catholic social thought has much to say about the issues surrounding the Rising.

Six months ago Pope Francis told Congress, “You are called to defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens in the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good, for this is the chief aim of all politics.” I love politics, but I hate much of what passes for politics today.

Pope Francis’ theology begins with the people’s faith.

The report found that the gender gap is most prevalent among Christians.