“I’ve been asked: How did you build this character? I didn’t. He did, and I follow in his footsteps.”

This is the story of the AIDS crisis from the perspective of a priest, trying to figure out what he could do to help.

“The Catholic Church does not view the sacramental seal as incompatible with maintaining child safety. The Church wants measures that will genuinely make environments safer for children. There has been no compelling evidence to suggest that legal abolition of the seal of confession will help in that regard.”

We did not undergo the prenatal testing that can identify the condition when I was pregnant with Dylan. We knew that the results would not change anything, and our doctor was fine with our decision.

The vulnerability of the Virgin still dispels distortions that we would create about her Son. He is not a figure of myth nor the creation of dogma. He is a man born to a woman, living in poverty.

Speaking to the group of diplomats, the pope dedicated his brief talk to "the path to peace"

The group, which included 14 children and teens, arrived in Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos Dec. 4.

Let’s be real: When it comes to the best films of a given year, the best film is the one you liked best.

Ken Jennings’s “The Gospel of John” is now onstage at New York City’s Sheen Center through Dec. 29.

32 states have now either abolished the death penalty or not carried out an execution in more than a decade

President López Obrador's party and allies control both houses of Mexico's Congress

Many in Tijuana have lived for months at crowded shelters, sleeping on floors, with little access to public health clinics.

This will be the final debate of the year; four more are scheduled for 2020.

The synod on the Amazon has again raised the possibility of women deacons. The New Testament gives us a model and precedent, writes Micah D. Kiel of St. Ambrose University, by the name of Phoebe.

Christmas songs that invoke Jesus’ name or mention the Nativity story are not automatically more respectful than Christmas songs that don’t.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts explain what information will now be available about these cases.

To help make sense of the Afghanistan Papers, America spoke with Karen J. Greenberg, permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law.

In the Philippines, the Christmas spirit can be found in a shopping mall chapel.