The broadcast networks are lucky to have two or three new shows make it to a second season.

“Instead, when the church is tepid, closed in on itself, businesslike, it cannot be said to be a church that serves."

The last day of life is like those that precede it. Either we open ourselves to the mystery or we withdraw into the citadel of the self.

Yitzhak Rabin warned about the growing threat of right-wing extremism, especially with regard to Israeli society.

It was all the more gut-wrenching for being so good a film and for telling its story so carefully and fairly.

Matt Malone, S.J. offers a reflection from Javier, the birthplace of St. Francis Xavier. Visit our special pilgrimage web site to follow their trip.

This is the first time the U.S. public has been able to read the fine print of a deal that will govern issues related to commerce, intellectual property and human and labor rights for 40 percent of the global economy—if it clears substantial hurdles being erected in Washington.

While Francis has hoped to set an example, rejecting the pomp of a papal palace for modest living quarters, Curia cardinals are said to live in “princely dwellings” around 10 times the size of the pope’s residence. One Italian monsignor allegedly expanded his own apartment by breaking down a wall into the home of his neighbor, an elderly priest who was in the hospital at the time.

The bishops did not downplay those issues which still divide Lutherans and Catholics, but wanted to “work from the vantage point of where we agree rather than those things which divide us.”

The Vatican Publishing House, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, published the Italian version of that final synod report without the results of the voting on each paragraph, against Pope Francis' directive.

Dr. Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, involved in Vatileaks 2 with Spanish monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, is released from prison.

Cardinal Turkson said the measure of success for the Paris summit on climate change, which begins Nov. 30, is “the extent to which people and groups are coming on board.” He noted there is substantial public awareness about “what is at stake.”

After decades of struggle for tertiary education and political liberation, a new generation remains trapped in what is now a kind of "democratic poverty." Democracy has not delivered the goods.

Watch the Ignatian Family Teach-In 2015 live this weekend.

The Christian includes, he does not close the door to anyone, even if this provokes resistance.

A remarkable spirit of fraternity reigned in Kansas City on Tuesday. Young and old, black and white, city-dwellers and suburbanites came together to celebrate their team and their city.

The outcome in Houston reminds us that few things in politics are as effective as sensationalist ads promoting the fear of crime.

Within the last year more evidence has accumulated that Osama Bin Laden did not die the way our government, with great fanfare and an odd mix of confusion, said he died.

A concern among many of the 2,200 churchmen at Vatican II was to truly make Catholicism a “church of the poor,” as Pope John XXIII put it shortly before convening the council. The bishops who gathered for Mass at the catacombs that November evening were devoted to seeing that commitment become a reality.

Edward W. Schmidt, S.J. offers a reflection from Arantzazu. Visit our special pilgrimage web site to follow their trip and submit prayer requests.