Armed groups affiliated with ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, celebrating erroneously in a statement the killing of “two priests.”

“Wearing the label ‘Christian’ or ‘Catholic’ is not enough to belong to Jesus. We need to speak the same language as Jesus: that of love,” Pope Francis said as he celebrated the third World Day of the Poor.

It will be his fourth trip to Asia since becoming pope.

“Parasite” delivers an epic lesson in class warfare.

Despite its apparent irreverence, the Maradonian Church mimics Catholic structures and echoes the Ignatian intention of finding God in all things.

When Pope Francis embarks on his apostolic trip to Thailand, he will have the assistance of a translator: his second cousin, a nun--who has worked as a missionary there for the last 50 years.

"If Pope Francis is needed, we should add him.”

We love our movies about wiseguys. But what happens when you live and work down the street from them?

Baptisms in Quebec have significantly declined in since 2012 and there's no indication the trend will reverse.

Here are several ways to deal with pain

In 'Barnum: An American Life,' Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, shows how P. T. Barnum morphed into (as he styled himself) “The Children’s Friend.”

The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.

Two new books show that Christian approaches to salvation are not as monolithic as one might think.

I do not mean that we need to stop having children. I mean that we need to stop engaging in the practices that have coincided with the widespread usage of “parent” as a verb.

Anand Giridharadas comes to conclusions that are consonant with the works of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI.

The reactions generally fell into two camps: I was either completely crazy or a saint, both of which I knew to be untrue.

Just as there is a growing number of nones, there is also a growing interest in spiritual direction.

One of the richest philosophical traditions in human history has been ignored and even systematically persecuted: the broad family of indigenous philosophies.