Two mass killings in South Sudan have taken place in a Catholic diocese whose leaders were forced to flee the conflict, leaving the church's work in the hands of lay workers who are often on the run from fighting."We are a diocese in diaspora. My priests and I were forced out of our pastora

Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints on Sunday April 27 the first-ever double papal canonization Here 39 s a quick guide to making saints in the Roman Catholic Church nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp There are currently about 10 000 saints on the church 39 s official roster The

Saint Thomas and the disciples weren’t ready for resurrection. They had to be won over by the wonderful.

Reports that Pope Francis told an Argentine woman civilly married to a divorced man that she can receive Communion quot cannot be confirmed as reliable quot said Jesuit Father Federico the Vatican spokesman Julio Sabetta 50 wrote on his Facebook page that Pope Francis phoned his wife Jacqueli

The search for truth begins in great questions Without great questions a soul never awakens to its own possibilities The Church has always understood this In nbsp Nostra Aetate nbsp the Second Vatican Council 39 s nbsp Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions t

From 2014: In honor of the upcoming canonization of Pope John XXIII, Loyola Press and James Martin, S.J., have graciously allowed us to print this chapter from Father Martin's book, My Life with the Saints.

I have been mulling over the dialogue in Robert Frost 39 s classic poem nbsp ldquo Mending rdquo In it a neighbor of the nbsp narrator of the poem is shoring up a broken wall His motto rings out quot Good fences make good neighbors quot But the poem 39 s narrator has his doubts quot So

Aklima and I are the same age 20 years old Yet our lives lived on opposite sides of the world have been drastically different In August of 2008 when I was 14 I began attending a Jesuit high school in Western New York with prospects of a good education and a bright future When she was 14 Ak

Writing in today 39 s nbsp Wall Street Journal Josh Mandel says quot it is becoming increasingly hard to defend the vanishing of shop class from the curriculum quot According to Mandel nbsp Too many young people have four-year liberal-arts degrees are thousands of dollars in debt and find the

His parents were horrible people. He was sickly all his life, dying eventually of an excruciating bladder cancer at only 48. His emotional life was often ungovernable. His at first rapturous marriage to a beautiful young aristocrat far above his station was plagued by suspicion, jealousy and outrigh

South Sudan's civil war has taken a brutal turn, despite appeals from the country's church leaders to stop the violence.In the oil hub of Bentiu, rebels loyal to ousted Vice President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, killed more than 200 civilians and wounded more than 400 in mid-April, the Unit

Hundreds of pilgrims wind their way around St Peter rsquo s Square as tour guides shout in multiple languages Beggars have their hands outstretched amid warnings of an invasion of pickpockets from abroad Across Rome hotels are full streets are clean and the cash registers in the souvenir stalls

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMISS nbsp issued a statement on April 21 that quot strongly condemns the targeted killings of civilians based on their ethnic origins and nationality in Bentiu quot South Sudan nbsp The statement continued quot UNMISS also strongly condemns the use

Suheir Saliba was running late as she prepared to go to the Easter Divine Liturgy with her husband, Aimad Kamal, and his family.Saliba, a Catholic, had a late night. She, along with other Catholic and Greek Orthodox residents of the village, had attended the ceremony welcoming the holy fire at St. G

The terms "poverty" and "America" did not seem to fit together for Philippine native Mar-Rex Lindawan, a nursing student at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa.A March visit to Appalachia changed her perspective. What Lindawan found during a weeklong visit to Wes

Documents detailing a 2014 court decision ordering the deportation of a now-80-year-old former defense minister from El Salvador directly connect his leadership to human rights abuses and a reign of terror against the country's civilians including a Salvadoran archbishop and women religious duri

On the Ignatian Educator blog, Matt Emerson reflects on what Jesus' post-Resurrection call "to go to Galiliee" means for students in Catholic schools.

In the first entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on Galatians I discussed introductory matters concerning the founding of the churches to the Galatians the situation when Paul wrote to them when the letter might have been written and the type of letters which Paul wrote based on the com

Identifying Christ’s transforming power in the world, whether in nature or in society, is essential to our faith in the Resurrection