Nearly everything Pope Benedict ever wrote or said in public was visibly animated by a concern to encourage—and to answer—the honest existential questions that young people are brave enough to raise.

A Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization could be an inevitability for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, according to a statement released Aug. 4 by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

In his homily for the closing Mass at World Youth Day, Pope Francis preached on The Transfiguration and its lessons for young people. He also announced that there will be a Jubilee for young people in Rome in 2025 and that the next World Youth Day will be held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in 2027.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher

Pope Francis preaches on Jesus’ love and desires for us at the Way of the Cross at World Youth Day.

When the Jesuits in Portugal were entrusted with planning the Way of the Cross, they knew it needed to be quite different from any previous prayer service.

With 'The Sparrow,' Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.

A Reflection for Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kaya Oakes

America's editors on some books that might catch our readers' fancy in these final weeks of summer.

Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.