Valentine’s Day has not historically been the favorite holiday of America writers, but reflections on love have always found a home in these pages.

A $50 million shrine in Oklahoma built to honor the slain missionary — killed by three masked assassins who entered his rectory during Guatemala’s civil war — is expected to draw thousands of pilgrims to his home state.

The singer's halftime performance illuminated some of the tensions experienced by pregnant women in the public eye.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

Devastated by malnutrition and preventable diseases like flu, pneumonia, anemia, malaria and diarrhea, the Yanomami people have been called victims of a contemporary genocide by government authorities.

The Super Bowl ads are effective precisely because they’re less interested in Jesus and more interested in getting us to think about our choices.

A Reflection for Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz

Pope Francis today publicly denounced the sentencing of Nicaragua’s Bishop Rolando Álvarez to 26 years and four months in prison.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Thomas Collins as archbishop of Toronto and appointed Bishop Francis Leo to succeed him as the 14th archbishop of Canada’s largest diocese.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Christopher Parker

Many Catholic nuns, in the Philadelphia area as elsewhere, are known to be among the country’s most rabid sports fans.

A conversation with Jenna Barnett, the host of the new podcast “Lead Us Not” from Sojourners.

The genre that spawned “Bridgerton” is perhaps the least Catholic type of fiction available today, but its relationships are more Catholic than expected.

“To me, placing survivors’ stories first is about cultural transformation,” said the Rev. Gerard McGlone in regard to the report involving case studies of abuse cover-up in Catholic diocese.

To face potential mortal illness with wry humor and a taste for the ironic takes a delicate touch, but that is what the United Church of Christ pastor and writer Molly Baskette does in her new book.

Is it sound theology to think God was on one's own side after a victory? Who can capture the mind of God; do we know that he doesn't care who wins a game?

This week on ‘Inside the Vatican,’ Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss Pope Francis’ six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, which the pope called a pilgrimage of peace.

The Church of England banned church weddings for same-sex couples while allowing priests to bless same-sex marriages and partnerships.

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Scholastica, by Kevin Clarke

A Catholic high school in Philadelphia is taking action after several of its students posted a racist social media video that has sparked community protests.