Any move to broaden those whose feet are washed by the priest—taking the role of Jesus—could raise questions about ordination.

Faith organizations are focused on a longer-term goal: to make sure the impoverished city, where President Obama last weekend declared a state of emergency over its poisoned water, is never so neglected again.

Past results provide guideposts for Trump, Clinton and the rest.

"No child should be told that there is no room for them. The womb should not be the child's tomb," Archbishop Cupich told the crowd. "We just celebrated Christmas, the season that features the birth of a child, a season of new life and new beginning. A child, like no one else, creates and fosters hope in our world."

In letter to leaders at the World Economic Forum, Francis speaks to challenges of the “fourth industrial revolution"

Maybe the establishment isn't who we think it is.

"An unplanned pregnancy can be terrifying. The pro-life movement needs to show America that being pro-life is being pro-woman."

'The Francis Effect,' by John Gehring

'Killing a King,' by Dan Ephron

'The Graduate School Mess,' by Leonard Cassuto

Two U.S. bishops wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson seeking an end to deportation raids that rounded up more than 120 Central American immigrants early in the new year. “We disagree with the underlying rationale behind this action: that sending children and families back to the d

The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed 16 people in Nigeria on Dec. 25, continuing a gruesome tradition of village massacres on Christmas Day. • Delivering America Media’s John Courtney Murray lecture in New York on Jan. 12, Rabbi Dan Polish described 1965’s “Nostra Aet

The dystopian world of ‘The Man in the High Castle’

There is growing evidence that acts of service can benefit physical health.

Assessing the "diseases" of leadership at our Catholic universities

As a mother of six, Leah Jacobson is watching other parents try to raise children in a society that no longer supports sisterhood among mothers. And that’s a shame, said the founder and president of the Guiding Star Project, a Duluth-based organization seeking to combine under one roof a varie

Join Kevin Spinale, S.J., in a discussion of this month's selection, 'The Relic Master,' a novel by Christopher Buckley.

Despite a historic collapse in the private sector, public sector union labor remains strong, representing about 36 percent of the workforce.

The Saudis’ latest executions threaten to undermine the Syrian peace talks in Geneva.