Bishop David O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles known for his advocacy for peace, was shot and killed Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A Reflection for Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher

A Reflection for Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

Traditional Catholic networks have evaporated, and professional marketing of our faith is needed to fill the void.

In his Lenten message for 2023, Pope Francis compares the ongoing synodal process to the strenuous mountain trek embarked in the Gospel of Transfiguration, with what awaits us at the end better revealing God's will and our mission to the church.

For someone with the right ears and eyes, Burning Man provides opportunities to become more engaged and more intentional in faith.

I introduced students to a worldview completely at odds with the one expressed by Pope Francis. In doing so, I rationalized greed and dismissed the idea of a common good.

My Father’s House centers on Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a real life Irish priest who, with the help of an electic group of accomplices, helped shuttle escaped prisoners of war captives to safety.

What does A.I. paint as the communion of saints? And what does that say about how we have taught it to visualize the saints?

Cardinal O’Malley thanked the commission members and the Portuguese bishops who launched the study, but mostly the victims and survivors who came forward, many telling their stories for the first time.

A survey by the Pew Research Center showed that Americans who have taken classes on world religions are more knowledgeable about members of other religions than those who have not.

Catholics probably won’t hear hip-hop at Mass anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the genre doesn’t have a lot to say about God and the plight of God’s people.

A Reflection for Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless

There is a new willingness in the Catholic Church, modeled by Pope Francis, to hold its disagreements in fruitful tension, allowing the Spirit to show new paths forward that transcend those divisions.

It’s time to strip the altar. Time to hollow

I can sit at your feet, and feel the troubled waters of my body still

A new collective tribute by a baker’s dozen of erudite specialists adds up to an erudite, if in some parts abstruse, overview of the remarkable life and ecclesiastic career of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino.

In 'Another Kind of Eden,' James Lee Burke offers literary speculations on the presence of evil in a fallen world—a post-Eden existence that nonetheless makes occasional stabs at goodness and light.

With his new novel, Randy Boyagoda has added a witty, rambunctious and occasionally touching entry to the list of authors inspired by Dante.

Sister Jean, the beloved chaplain of Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has 103 years worth of stories to tell in her new memoir.