Spiritual worldliness, Pope Francis said, tempts us towards an inconsistent lifestyle, in which we pretend to be one thing but live in another way.

John Schlegel, S.J., pastor, teacher, friend and former publisher of 'America,' died on Sunday.

The U.S. bishops will vote tomorrow on whether or not to approve new additions to its quadrennial “Faithful Citizenship’ statement, refreshed this year to take into consideration some contemporary concerns and some of the new issues that Pope Francis has been bringing to the attention of the global church.

Barbara E. Reid on using Scripture to further gender equality

“We understand that there is going to be some concern and vetting” of refugees seeking protection and resettlement in the United States to make sure they have the “proper intent,” but “we are going to be ready to receive them.”

We must realize that terror and terrorism didn’t just start some forty-odd years ago, in our “modern age.” It has always been a part of human history.

There are those who believe that peace will not return until El Salvador deals with its past.

Just as Christ, incarnate Wisdom, is the sole Mediator between God and humankind, we might say that the cultures of peoples, inasmuch as they are wisdom, are the privileged space of mediation between the Gospel and humankind.

When a Lutheran woman married to a Catholic man asked Pope Francis what she and her husband could do to receive Communion together, the pope said he could not issue a general rule on shared Communion, but the couple should pray, study and then act according to their consciences.

The pope’s aim is to establish a whole new way of being church.

Religious liberty and Catholic identity are early topics of U.S. bishops' meeting in Baltimore

Students across the country have staged sit-ins and marches, demanding U.S. schools acknowledge that racism is an issue.

The single thought, humanism that takes the place of Jesus, destroys the Christian identity.

We now have yet another red-vs.-blue map to keep track of.

In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, which at press time had claimed 132 lives and left hundreds more wounded, President François Hollande vowed to “be unforgiving with the barbarians from Daesh.” By Nov. 15 France had begun bombing raids on the ersatz capital of ISIS, Raqqa in Syr

The cheery rosy-faced London “bobby” was nowhere to be seen. In his place were pairs of flak-jacketed and heavily-armed Metropolitan Police and there were rumors that the SAS, Britain’s elite special forces, were on the streets too.

Some of the terrorists were heard shouting out “Allah u-Akbar” (“Allah is Great!”) as they launched their deadly attacks in Paris.

“I am close to the people of France, to the families of the victims, and I am praying for all of them,” Pope Francis said.

A profound meditation on suffering, death and reconciliation, which may help as we reflect on the terrible murders in Paris.