Soon after the death of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in December 1972, America devoted an entire issue to his life and work. The idea for the special issue, published on March 10, 1973, came from John C. Haughey, S.J., an associate editor, who explained that anyone who knew Rabbi Heschel “sens

With unprecedented outbreak, nations have little choice but to embrace global solidarity.

Fifty years ago this fall, the Democrats won their highest percentage ever in a presidential election, and Catholics formed the party’s bedrock constituency. Still reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Catholics voted for his successor, Lyndon Johnson, by a margin of three to one

This year has seen a remarkable spike in the number of Cubans arriving in South Florida.

Captors released a Franciscan priest who was among about 20 Christians kidnapped from a Syrian village near the border with Turkey. Father Hanna Jallouf was being held under house arrest in a religious residence in Knayeh, a small Christian village in northwestern Syria, according to a statement on

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Oct. 10 to Kailash Satyarthi of India and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, heroic advocates for children’s rights, especially the right to education. • In the Maiduguri Diocese in northeastern Nigeria, nearly 200 churches have been destroyed or razed by B

The promises made by the evangelizers of modern diets border on salvific.

Obama approves plan allowing Central American children to apply for refugee status.

72% of Americans think religion is losing influence—and most see this as a bad thing.

Pope Francis is concerned about the formation candidates for the priesthood are receiving.

On sexual and medical ethics, participants at the Synod of Bishops on the Family are giving emphasis to the concept of “graduality,” a way of thinking about morality that allows for human imperfection without compromising ideals. On the Synod’s first working day, Oct. 6, Cardinal P

In school, thinking 'I don't know' if God is real seemed like an admission of failure.

In a blunt assessment of the Iraqi government’s response to the suffering of Christians from the northern Nineveh province, a leading Chaldean Catholic bishop said, “Our people have been abandoned.”The Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, blasted both the Iraqi government an

Winston Churchill’s childhood, at least the first “wavering lights and shadows of dawning consciousness,” as he put it, began in the most unlikely of places: Éire. “My earliest memories are Ireland,” he explained in his autobiography. “I can recall scenes and eve

One of the Vatican’s top canon lawyers at the Synod of Bishops on the Family says the current process for the annulment of marriages in the Catholic Church could be streamlined and expanded to the benefit of many people whose marriages have broken down.Cardinal Francis Coccopalmerio of Italy s

Holiness and humanity in ‘St. Vincent’

The disappearance of 43 students has sparked soul-searching among many Mexicans.

It's increasingly difficult to say anything of significance to someone under the age of 30.

All Are WelcomeAs a mother of five children, four of whom have A.D.H.D. and two of whom also have an autism spectrum disorder, I am grateful for the welcoming attitude in Brian Doyle’s “Suffering Children” (10/6).I was a squirmy, talkative young child and more than once had to be s

Mark Brumley is a California-based writer and CEO of Ignatius Press in San Francisco one of the biggest U S Catholic publishers and multimedia distributors nbsp He was also an apologist with Catholic Answers and was director of Communications and of the Office for Social Ministries of the Dioces