At a rare showing of “Miserere et Guerre” (“Mercy and War”), the pious and the curious will have a chance to judge for themselves.

Cardinal Wuerl: We live in a culture in which there are two very distinct worldviews that diverge on fundamental points.

Advocates called for an end of the policy of holding remaining detainees without charges.

“It’s intended to be taken into the wilderness of daily life.”

A college education today is not a luxury.

We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis which in recent years has meant the migration of thousands of people."

It is hard to overestimate the impact of the spectacle of Pope Francis visiting a community like San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico.

Seen as a great human undertaking, astronomy becomes a pursuit very much worth our time, our money and our imagination.

Whether private school tax benefits violate state law depends on the state.

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This morning, I hauled to the streetA heavy wooden pallet, so beatThe workmen had left it behind:Its boards, rough-hewn and splinteringAgainst the asphalt. When I leanedIt on the dumpster, with some twineAnd flattened cardboard boxes, too,For the trash-man, a March gust blewAnd overturned what I had

Belief is less about mystical knowledge than about noticing.

After making history in Mexico, Pope Francis was not done in the skies above on the way home to Rome

The argument tying more legal abortion to the plight of poor women is old.

God had surprised me with an invitation I had never anticipated.

Books on the bible.

During WorkCamp, I really began to see the virtues of faith, hope and love all put together.

The universal destination of material goods has often been a “forgotten truth.”

Pope Francis sought to shake up Mexico’s bishops on his first morning there.