Daily Advent Reflections, Day 9: Mary offers herself, in all her ordinariness, fully and without hesitation to God.

Today the pope opened the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, inaugurating the Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Advent campaign calls on Cardinal Dolan to open up New York's shuttered churches to the city's homeless.

It’s those in the corner office who have the power to decide if employees are valued partners to be protected or just another cost of production.

As we lovingly stumble through another Advent season, we might remember the most important “yes” of all, the answer of a young Jewish girl named Mary.

On this day 74 years ago, the United States was drawn into a war—a world war—for the second time in nearly 30 years.

The president can't cross divide on perceptions of threat from ISIS.

Daily Advent Reflections, Day 8: The paralytic and his friends show us the way.

Saying rural Americans can’t have their hunting rifles is a lot like punishing a whole class because a couple kids are screwing around—it’s not fair and seriously counterproductive.

The Catholic approach to the Bible may be characterized as a both/and, rather than an either/or.

Daily Advent Reflection, Day 6: Like a loving mother, God heals broken hearts and wipes away tears.

Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group, Jubilee USA Network, said, "Puerto Rico needs a solution to the debt crisis that prevents austerity and protects the vulnerable," said , "With Congress unwilling to act, courts in Puerto Rico could be a part of that solution."

“For the past decade, Muslims have been seen through the prism of terrorism, fundamentalism and jihadism,” said Nizarr Bourchada, who heads the UDMF’s regional ticket. “We want to show that Muslims today participate socially and economically and will also participate politically.”

“Terror is a Muslim issue, an Islamic issue within the house of Islam,” said M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, “and we must own it” to fight it.

If temperatures increase by 4 degrees Celsius, "projections for Africa suggest sea levels could rise faster than the global average and reach 80 cm above current levels by 2100 along the Indian and Atlantic Ocean coastlines, with particularly high numbers of people at risk of flooding in the coastal cities of Mozambique, Tanzania, Cameroon, Egypt, Senegal and Morocco."

"Like Bishop Barnes said, this is a time for prayer, a time to pray for peace...I know there are many people all over who are praying for us here in such a terrible time, and I want to extend my thanks to all of them. We don't need any more violence."

The pope's words come as the peace process to end a 45-year-old conflict between the government and separatist rebels seems to have stalled.

Unconventional monetary policy measures used to stimulate the economy in the face of the great recession represented a major break for the Federal Reserve

After Pope Francis opens the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 8, the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council, Holy Doors will be opened in all the cathedrals of the world on Dec. 13.

Filmmaker William Riead describes the 14 years of 'spiritual warfare' behind 'The Letters,' now in theaters.