On Aug. 6, we wrestle with the dramatic extremes of good and evil, as symbolized by the ancient glory of the Transfiguration and the utter destruction of that first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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

Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on Wednesday signed off on the request to extradite the Rev. Franco Reverberi, an 85-year-old priest who served as military chaplain during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

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

A Homily for the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, by Father Terrance Klein

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by J.D. Long-García

On his arrival in Lisbon for World Youth Day, Aug. 2, Pope Francis issued a heartfelt plea for peace.

I spoke with friends who work with young people, and young people themselves, to get the hardest questions about God and religion.

Ten years ago on the flight back from his first World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis spoke these five simple words that reverberated around the world: “Who am I to judge?”

A young Alabama Catholic priest placed under restriction by the Archdiocese of Mobile July 26, has been located in Italy, along with an 18-year-old woman with whom he had fled the country days earlier.