So often what we consider to be interruptions can become invitations. We only need to ask, “What is it that you are saying, dear Lord?”

In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

According to a rash of new polls, Americans have come together over the belief that the country’s major institutions are seriously out of whack.

Were a papal document forthcoming it could lead to a new and definitive papal teaching document on issues as polarizing as contraception, assisted procreation and palliative care.

Every ticket scooped up by scalpers is one less ticket available to the very people that the pope is going to Canada to see.

The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said it is “deeply disturbing and tragic” that the president has chosen to use his power as the nation’s chief executive “to promote and facilitate abortion in our country.”

The bishops’ conciliatory statements are being overshadowed by the specter of punitive cruelty toward women confronting crisis pregnancies. They must speak out again.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

“This rush to execute would be reckless in any state, but Oklahoma in particular has a horrendous track record for problematic executions.”

Francine Pirola, co-director of the Sydney-based Marriage Resource Center, said the council had produced a “vastly improved” revision of the section of the document on women, which had been the focus of a major disruption July 6.