The decision affects Bishop Michael J. Bransfield, retired bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, who left his position in September 2018 under a cloud of allegations of sexual and financial misconduct.

Georgetown announced it would commit to raising around $400,000 a year to create a fund for reparations to the descendants of 272 slaves sold by the college in the pre-Civil War era.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been recorded several times stating that he does not agree with the number and size of indigenous territories.

Father George Elliot discusses his latest book on vocational discernment and the power of prayer in determining God's will.

“They died on their way to this country and made that journey from life into death,” Ms. Marquez said. “In the end, we will find them there with our God."

The Rev. James Martin, S.J., leads listeners through an Examen focusing on the experience of praying while you're tempted.

We women do not want to make waves; we do not want to upset people. But the moment for all of us to act is decidedly now.

Tehran has gone from producing some 450 grams (1 pound) of low-enriched uranium a day to 5 kilograms (11 pounds)

Humanities education is imperiled and undervalued in an a society that worships short-term usefulness, writes Santiago Ramos. But there is a rebellion in defense of educating the soul.

The eldest Sister of Mercy in the world and possibly the oldest living religious died Oct. 25 at the age of 111 at the Convent of Mercy retirement home in Mobile.

Celebrating Mass in the underground burial chamber, Pope Francis said he naturally thought "of the life of those people who had to hide, who had this culture of burying their dead and celebrating the Eucharist inside here."

Now imagine what God’s love, after this life, can do to transform you.

Part of me winces at “Jesus Is King,” as though it were a decaying tooth. But if I’m honest, another part of me is drawn to the rot.

While saying the priest who denied Joseph R. Biden communion "had a good point," Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he would not have done so himself.

Arbery has written a play based on many years of quietly watching and listening to his fellow Catholics and conservatives.

His funeral Mass was celebrated in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at the Campion Center Oct. 29, followed by interment in Campion Center Cemetery.

New American poetry that spans the globe.

We’re relaunching the commenting experience at America.

“Faith is the heart of the pilgrim, every pilgrim, the pilgrim’s modus operandi. Faith is our yes to what we know; but even more, it is our yes to what we don’t know—to all that is to come,” writes Matt Malone, S.J., in a homily he delivered in Ireland.

It's unclear what the announcement means when only the work permits have been extended.