If we think the Benedict Option is going to be easier than the messy reality of modern parish life, we have not yet seen it clearly.

An exclusive interview with James Martin, S.J. and Martin Scorsese, the director of "Silence."

Immigration is an ancient and contemporary reality; human beings have always sought better conditions for their lives.

The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.

However it happens, at some point, you will realize that you have no idea where you are, and that there are a lot of unfriendly beasts out there in the world.

The New York archdiocese's program lets people take claims to a noted outside mediator while keeping painful details private.

After two Christmas seasons in which the political reality had overtaken holiday cheer, people seemed primed to finally feel some merriment in Bethlehem.

They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.

"Despite all divergences, we believe a political compromise is still possible," the bishops said in a Dec. 2 statement.

After one of my own teenage students was murdered, Emmett Till's grave became a place of occasional pilgrimage for me.