So why do churches receive tax benefits? One reason is many congregations do “great work.”

Tomorrow the State Assembly of the state of California may very well pass a bill to make assisted suicide legal for its 38+ million residents.

It is the fiat of the local bishop whether to allow the priests in his diocese to absolve those sins that result in automatic excommunication.

I bring you a rosewhich you yourself created!Did you create the roseso that I could bring it,or me, so that Iwould find a roseand bring it to you? So, I give myself and a rose.Thank you for the giftof roses which I give back,with my hands opening. I love your roses and you.Can you smell wh

Jesus himself was merely “the Nazarene” to those who wanted to denigrate him.

Writer and philosopher Daniel McInerny offers thoughts for parents and students for the upcoming academic year.

'In the Country,' by Mia Alvar

'Changing the Questions,' by Margaret A. Farley

'Thirty-Three Good Men,' by John A. Weafer

Pope Francis comes to embrace all Americans.

When Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago received the pallium, a symbol of his unity with the pope and brother bishops, at a special Mass on Aug. 23, he asked the entire church to join him in seeking out lost sheep. • The Diocese of St. Augustine will join the city of St. Augustine, Fla., in

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on Aug. 21 said that while the Little Sisters of the Poor and fellow plaintiffs appeal its July ruling against them, they need not comply with the mandate to provide contraceptive coverage or follow procedures to hand off that responsibility to others.

Before hitting the big screen, comics were stories our parents read to us.

The British Labour Party has long been marked by factionalism and splits, entryism and intrigue. The center and the right have it too, but they hide it better. With Labour, it is visible and endemic.It has happened again, as Labour tries to drag itself back from disaster after the Parliamentary gene

Two years ago an Italian scientist published a book entitled The Mystery of the Shroud, an examination of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the cloth that many believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels. This book asserted that contrary to scientific studies from the lat

Lack of imagination and fear of innovation on the part of the church as a whole are two elements obstructing the renewal of contemporary religious life, for every baptized Catholic has a role to play in the task of reimagining this way of living. In declaring 2015 a year dedicated to consecrated lif

Secretary of State John Kerry writes about the role of faith traditions in diplomacy and global affairs

The common good is the first victim of America’s gun culture.

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina buried one of the world’s most iconic cities in a flood of biblical proportions. More than 1,800 people lost their lives. “It was like a war zone. No sign of life,” said the now-retired archbishop of New Orleans, Alfred C. Hughes. Across the regi