Lay Catholics are ready to lend their expertise, leadership and prayers to heal the wounds inflicted on children and the church by abusers and the leaders who failed to stop them.

Colm Tóibín may have you reaching for your abandoned copy of "The Importance of Being Earnest" or "Dubliners," even if you have not touched those books since high school.

Even when events are messy and motives are questionable and hardships abound, we must trust that God’s unknowable power is at work.

“Walk together, work together, love each other.” That is how Pope Francis described the journey of building Christian unity in the 21st century. Michael Rudzena is walking that path as part of the John 17 Movement, an ecumenical group dedicated to responding to the prayer of Jesus that “all who believe in me be one.”

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced a ban of "military-style" semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines like those used in the shootings at Christchurch mosques last week.

A Jewish cemetery in Fall River, Mass. was vandalized on March 16-17, with headstones defaced with anti-Semitic messages, with numerous headstones pushed to the ground. The Anti-Defamation League of New England is offering a $1,500 award for any information involving the case. This latest incident reveals a disturbing trend in increasing anti-Semitic violence in the state of Massachusetts.

Catholic parents should vaccinate their children for the good of their children and the community said the Pontifical Academy for Life.

A nun’s ability to find humor rather than outrage, to remain humble while believing oneself to be in possession of the truth, is something we can use more of in today’s church.

Do we still believe there are “evil spirits who prowl through the world, seeking the ruin of souls,” as the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel memorably phrases it?

Two boys at a Catholic boarding school in Zimbabwe are among the more than 300 people killed in the aftermath of a cyclone that slammed into Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in mid-March.