The Jesuit’s pilgrimage involves confronting one’s limits, only to discover that God never abandons us even in our sheer exhaustion, despondency and despair. The same is true of the synod process.

The church's teaching on servile work as it developed over the centuries is another indicator of how the church constantly sought ways not only to extend its evangelization but to challenge itself to recognize fully the others for whom Christ died.

The luminous mysteries show Jesus’ light in the world. Jesus is fully human and fully divine, and the mysteries we contemplate seem to give full recognition to each, through stories of Jesus living out his public ministry.

Two new productions on Broadway—“The Hills of California” and ”Our Town”—meditate on theater as a kind of shared imaginative space.

Pierre Toussaint, an immigrant from Haiti, was a devout and celebrated Roman Catholic. Mr. Vance may find much to emulate in his life story.

Ghost stories speak to how deeply we love, but also to a desire to prolong our lives however we can.

There have always been false prophets, but now we have something else: artificial ones.

Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy focused their discussion on the repatriation of Ukrainian nationals held in Russian captivity.

Ethel Kennedy, Joe Kennedy said, “was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy.”

On the eve of the final session of the Synod on Synodality, a diverse group of women working in ministry at the margins of the church had the opportunity of a lifetime: a private audience with Pope Francis.