Accompaniment, not technology, might be the most caring thing we can offer those facing death.

Thannamunai, a small village some 140 miles northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, was the place where people defied the ban on Sunday Mass in the wake of the recent terror attacks in the country.

Churches and governments throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia are becoming increasingly concerned with the continued threats from Isis-inspired groups and persons, given the growing number of church bombings.

The next few years will be critical to whether or not Catholic higher education can bloom in the desert. If it does, it may provide a vital service to a population that represents the future of the Catholic Church in the United States.

If begun, impeachment could succeed in the House, but conviction and removal from office would almost certainly fail in the Senate along partisan lines.

The Catholic Book Club's new selection studies the Catholic Church's ecclesial response to modernity over the last century.

“Will this ombudsperson really be able to provide justice for a community in Guatemala, who has really experienced crimes, including rape, the forced displacement of their community, and murder?”

What's taking place outside the constant scrutiny of news cameras and commentators is the number of immigrant communities already well-established in the country.

Pope Francis applauded the beatification of four Argentine martyrs -- a bishop, two priests and a layman -- who were murdered early in the country's seven-year long "Dirty War."

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka urged the government on Monday to crack down on Islamic extremists with more vigor "as if on war footing" in the aftermath of the Easter bombings.

Pope Francis has donated $500,000 to assist migrants attempting to travel through Mexico, but who are increasingly being impeded by Mexican officials from reaching the U.S. border.

I think of pressing a hand or a finger into a wound in order to see, in order to believe.

God is being revealed to us every moment of the day. And so all these moments should make us say what Thomas says to Jesus, when we realize who it is who is speaking to us: “My Lord and My God!”

Coming so soon after the suspension of the Twitter account for the anti-abortion film “Unplanned,” the suspension raised some eyebrows in the Twitterverse.

On April 24, the Archdiocese of Baltimore released the names of 23 additional priests who had been accused of sexual abuse of minors. All the priests named are deceased.

If you list all the details, Kanye West’s “Sunday Service” starts to sound like the invention of a heavy-handed satirist.

Out of fear of future unknown planned attacks, the Catholic hierarchy of Sri Lanka have cancelled all Sunday Masses until further notice.

If there is a single artist working today who truly gets flesh, it is Jenny Saville.