New short film looks at ambivalent place of LGBT identity in the church

It's offensive to say Bostonians oppose the death penalty because it is not cruel enough.

Graduation season approaches. It's always interesting to see who's speaking where.

As aftershocks continue to terrify survivors thousands of whom are living in tent cities that have sprung up in open spaces in the Nepal capital of Kathmandu the death toll continues to climb mdash now more than 4 000 are believed to have been killed more than 9 000 have been injured and thousand

Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and named Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, Utah, to succeed him.Archbishop Sheehan, who has headed the Santa Fe Archdiocese since 1993, turned 75 last year, the age at which bishops are require

'Grounded' explores a new kind of war-making.

More than 3,600 people were known to have been killed and more than 6,500 injured

I believe pundits who talk about "the Catholic vote" don't know many Catholics.

Perhaps the worst mistake was killing Osama Bin Laden.

St Joseph 39 s University the Jesuit university of Philadelphia has named Mark Reed as its new President Reed is currently the vice president for administration as well as a math professor at Fairfield University He is the first lay president and one of the youngest presidents in school histor

'Whether we want to accept it or not, Cuba is undergoing a transformation.'

Beheadings, enslavement, kidnappings and rape plague minority religious communities across the Middle East, and it’s time for President Obama to fill a job created to address their plight, a group of prominent evangelicals, scholars and other religious leaders told the White House.In the

The indigenous families living in this South American jungle village came early to see the American doctors running a free health clinic.They paddled dugout canoes for miles on the placid waters of the Wakapoa Creek, gave their names and sat on wooden benches to wait for what may be their only docto

The Jesuit Refugee Service expressed disappointment today with the measures announced by the European Union to respond to the accelerating migrant crisis in the Mediterranean describing the outcome after meetings in Brussels as ldquo a lost opportunity rdquo James Stapleton J R S International

The Holy See is becoming impatient with the complacency of the nuclear powers.

April 24, 2015Santa MartaJesus never forgets the day we encountered Him for the first time; we should ask God for the “grace of memory” so that we can always remember it. That was the Pope’s hope for us in the homily at Mass on Friday morning at the Casa Santa Marta.

Majority say that protecting gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership.

The psychological health of a saint tells us nothing about the God who normally guides, but sometimes supersedes, the natural order.

While the world rsquo s attention was focused on the outbreak of deadly xenophobic attacks in South Africa another deplorable murder took place Eighty-six-year-old Missionary Sister of the Precious Blood Stefani Tiefenbacher was allegedly gang raped and murdered in her bedroom Police are waiting

Make Hyde Amendment permanent to avoid future legislative gridlock?