In a roundabout way, Pullman does Christians a service by writing his anti-Christian books.

What ought to be the Ignatian contribution to the fight for racial justice, given our mission and our values?

Fiction moves us, engages us, finds for us truths we may not have recognized when first presented to us as fact. Fiction teaches us agility, the importance of leaping from word to meaning, and the pleasure that’s to be had in doing so.

To reflect upon Cornelia’s life today is inevitably to lament it.

Blessed Cristobal, along with two other indigenous Tlaxcalteca youths, Blessed Antonio and Blessed Juan, will be canonized Oct. 15 at the Vatican

When a pope issues a document “motu proprio,” it means he does so by his own motivation, and it can mean a significant change to church law.

Papal authority has expanded dramatically over the last 150 years. But our age has seen something new—informal papal teachings meant as pastoral encouragements more than doctrinal clarifications.

A Vatican priest working in the Holy See's embassy in Washington has been recalled after U.S. officials flagged possible violations of child pornography laws.

"Magnum Principium," the new apostolic letter released motu proprio by Pope Francis, is returning authority to regional bishops' conferences in matters of liturgical translation. But why and how?

Proponents say the program will help to provide scholarships for 6,000 to 10,000 students in religious and other private schools statewide.