'Let’s make sure we don’t make our prayer too antiseptic.'

The family is a ‘domestic Church’ where we learn to love and serve others, to show gratitude not greed, and to ask forgiveness when we have caused harm. That was the theme Pope Francis’ homily at Mass in Ecuador’s main commercial city of Guayaquil, located on the Pacific coas

Jackson would hardly prefer “big government” solutions to poverty and inequality.

Over the last few weeks I 39 ve been reaching out to a wide variety of prominent Catholics in California getting their reactions to quot Laudato Si rsquo quot This week I 39 m posting some of their responses nbsp California Governor Jerry Brown has spent his entire life in public service A

GUAYAQUIL A million people from Ecuador and neighboring countries interrupted Pope Francis several times with enthusiastic applause as he delivered an inspiring and encouraging homily on the family and assured them that thanks to Jesus ldquo the best wine is yet to come rdquo He offered this enc

Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’” is a great and timely gift to humanity. To avoid a catastrophic collision of the world economy and environment, humanity urgently needs to change the trajectory and functioning of the world economy. Yet the world economic system is a jug

When Pope Francis enters the Jesuit church here July 7 for a moment of private prayer, he will step into an architectural gem where trees once grew up through the floor.The Iglesia de la Compania—the Jesuits, or Society of Jesus, are known as the Compania de Jesus in Spanish—is a "B

New documentary tells the tragically all-too-common tale of addiction

'This pope has the courage to speak out.'

Our Common HomePope Francis in quot Laudato Si rsquo quot stated ldquo It is my hope that this Encyclical Letter can help us to acknowledge the appeal immensity and urgency of the challenge we face rdquo No 15 The urgency is not only on a global scale but relates to the local level as w

The Greek referendum result is a dramatic watershed moment in European political history.

The people of Nazareth were put off by the mix of ordinary and extraordinary in Jesus.

QUITO ldquo I thank God for having allowed me to return to Latin America and to be here with you today in this beautiful land of Ecuador rdquo With these words a visibly happy Pope greeted the Ecuadorian people and then went onto appeal for dialogue and nbsp reconciliation in the land soon aft

On this Independence Day when the flags are unfurled and whipping in the summer breeze and the bunting is put out and the picnic tables are festooned with the arrangement of hamburgers and hot dogs the pickles and the pretzels and potato chips macaroni and potato salads and don rsquo t forget th

The significance of this mounting and rapidly developing Greek tragedy most politicians in Europe agree is its likely effect on the stability of the single currency the beleaguered euro if not on the whole European project itself If there is a Greek exit the vaunted ldquo Grexit rdquo from

It rsquo s said to be Pope Francis rsquo favorite Church document nbsp In his lifetime of ministry his most cited Back in 1975 in Evangelii Nuntiandi Proclaiming the Gospel Pope Paul VI insisted thatthe presentation of the Gospel message is not an optional contribution for the Church It is

Pope Francis returns with joy to Latin America this Sunday July 5 and is expected to be given a rapturous welcome by millions of people during his seven-day visit to Ecuador Bolivia and Paraguay On the eve of his departure he went to the Basilica of St Mary Major rsquo s in Rome to pray before t

On Saturday we celebrate the United States of America and the wonderful freedoms that inhere in being a citizen of this great country But what really is freedom It is a complicated matter a subject for much political and theological speculation Catholic theology advocates a freedom for more nb

Getting older is about to get a lot tougher if a recent article in The Irish Times is to be believed According to bureaucrats politicians and social scientists in Japan the latest phenomenon to become worried about is the problem of how to handle the increasing growth of what is called the ldqu

An interview with Chicago's new archbishop