With the sudden passing of John Slattery, broadcast journalism lost one of its best.

The United States has to go beyond blunt militarism in the fight against ISIS.

He was first African-American diocesan priest.

People need to open their hearts to the many people who are forced to migrate as they face enormous difficulties and sometimes tragedy, Pope Francis said."I pray for closed hearts that they may open. And everything I have available to me, is available to you," he told a group of young Erit

Pope convenes summit on violence and persecution threatening minorities.

Poet James Merrill once described his fellow writer Elizabeth Bishop as ldquo a genius masquerading as an ordinary woman rdquo I thought of that line after spending two days this past summer working on a profile for PBS-TV rsquo s nbsp Religion amp Ethics NewsWeekly nbsp on the Quaker folk sing

As reported in America rsquo s Sept 29th Current Comment ldquo Protecting Human Dignity rdquo nbsp California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the country rsquo s first ldquo affirmative consent rdquo bill mandating that sexual partners on state college campuses must give ldquo affir

(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the midterm races from Robert D. Sullivan.

Thank you to Michael Paul Gallagher S J in Rome for sending this translation of the homily Pope Francis delivered during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Jesuit restoration The Vespers service took place on Saturday September 27 at the Gesu Church in Rome You can read more about

ldquo Nothing like this has happened in Hong Kong before I rsquo m just praying that it won rsquo t become like Tiananmen the situation is similar in many ways nbsp We must pray this does not happen rdquo This is what Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun told me by phone from Hong Kong on the evening

Paypal founder discusses what it means to have 'faith in the technological future.'

Writing in the Wall Street Journal essayist Joseph Epstein extols William James 39 s The Variety of Religious Experience quot What makes 39 Varieties of Religious Experience 39 the great book it is after all is not its consideration of the logic of religion but the role religion has played

Missouri spokesman confirms archbishop visited diocese for interviews.

Anointing of the sick reminds us we do not stand alone when facing troubled times.

Many Catholic dioceses are going through the difficult journey of merging two or more parishes into a single entity nbsp Usually after a long process of planning for the change the moment arrives for the parishes to give up their identity and form a new entity It is a heart-wrenching experience

Will campaign promises make substantive entitlement reform harder to achieve?

Wanting to give more than thanks, Matt Emerson traces gratitude's Latin roots.

An unprecedented 160,000 refugees fled from Islamic State offensive.

As the situation deteriorated in Hong Kong following police crackdown on protestors over the weekend Cardinal John Tong Hon the local bishop issued ldquo an urgent appeal rdquo to the government there ldquo to put the personal safety of fellow citizens as her prime concern rdquo and ldquo to