A funeral Mass will be celebrated May 21 at St. Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad for Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis, who died May 18 at Memorial Hospital in Jasper. He was 84.Father Davis wrote six books, including "The History of Black Catholics in the United States," published in 1990.

Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill on May 20 to abolish the death penalty by a big enough margin to override a threatened veto by Gov. Pete Ricketts.The measure passed 32-15 in the state’s unicameral Legislature. It would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison.If lawmakers o

Church bells are ringing once again in the Assyrian Christian villages dotting the Khabur River in northeastern Syria after Islamic State militants were routed by a combination of forces.It's a stark contrast to the mounting concerns for one of the most renowned archaeological sites in the Middl

On Saturday, May 23, the martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified, 35 years after he was assassinated while celebrating Mass in the modest chapel of Divine Providence Hospital in San Salvador. Columnist James Keane is in San Salvador and will be reporting from the ceremony for America

Shoppers must be willing to pay more.

NEW YORK NY ndash The boards of trustees of America Media and of the Saint Thomas More Chapel and Center at Yale University are pleased to announce that Philip J Metres III has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the George W Hunt S J Prize for Excellence in Journalism Arts amp Let

May 21, 2015Santa MartaHis wounds are the "price" that Jesus paid for the Church to be united forever to Him and to God. Christians today are called to ask for the grace of unity and to fight against all "spirit of division, of war, of jealousy."  That was Pope Francis&rsquo

The important question is not whether to use new technologies, but which to use, and how.

A new image for Pentecost

Fifty years after Nostra Aetate, what we've learned about interfaith dialogue

Democrats may win the White House, but the GOP has an edge in other levels of government.

A few small but significant steps toward ending the suffering of Rohingya Muslims adrift on the Andaman Sea have been made in recent days Responding to broad international criticism of previous decisions to turn away boatloads of Rohingya landing on their shores Southeast Asian regional powers Mal

It’s probably all due to football, but when the University of Notre Dame contemplates changing something that has been part of the institution’s life for years, people—even far from South Bend, Ind.—tend to notice. So over the last few months, discussion has surfaced in the m

May 20, 2015Santa MartaPope Francis said on Tuesday (May 19th) many people like the Rohingya of Myanmar or the Christians and Yazidis in Iraq have been forced to say farewell to their homes and the lives of all of us are marked by farewells of varying importance.  He said each of us should refl

(Because, you know, Romero wasn't political.)

Will the rise of 'the nones' roll back the overrepresentation of Christians in government?

A Los Angeles-based Catholic speaker and survivor of two violent crimes

One of the issues that comes up repeatedly in debates over death-accelerating medication for the terminally ill as that description probably makes clear is terminology Advocates of legislation like California rsquo s SB 128 do not like to see the word ldquo suicide rdquo associated with their p

The great Russian chess player discusses Thomas More, America and human rights.