Francis is inviting more than half the human race to share in this prayer together.

What does the typical American Catholic look like? Surveys conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate tell us she is a 48-year-old, non-Hispanic white, married woman with a Catholic spouse. She is of the post-Vatican II generation (born between 1961 and 1981). Born in 1968, she i

Giving up candy is one thing, but let's not overlook the value of prayer and works of mercy.

RhodesMustFall has become a headline story and frequently used hash-tag in social media It is has become the label given to a raging debate around curricula race white privilege and colonialism at institutions of higher learning in South Africa The Rhodes Must Fall campaign began at one of Afri

People seem open to mercy, emphasizing forgiveness over judgment, as never before.

What should disqualify someone from being a saint?That might seem a funny question. How about sin? But over the course of the last month, people in California and elsewhere have been asking it a lot. In January, Pope Francis announced that in September he will canonize Junípero Serra, the 18th-cent

St. Gregory came from a line of scholars and churchmen.

Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs called for an end to financing terrorists and suggested that borders be closed when necessary to prevent their movement.The leaders also appealed for the creation of a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, based on a long-standing proposal for a two-s

As this winter gets underway in earnest, I say, go ahead and break me. Plunder me, take me down, so I can be made new. Maybe that is exactly what I need—not merely a rest but a reinvention.

For many years now I rsquo ve resolved to include in my Advent and Christmas reading Caryll Houselander rsquo s The Reed of God but the usual distractions have prevented me until this year nbsp It rsquo s a simple modest little book of meditations on Mary and the Incarnation and what it all mea