Jesus does not draw attention to the widow and her “two small coins” because he wants you to do some good work or to donate a certain percentage of your resources.

Although I did not emerge victorious in the race for legislator in Nassau County’s 14th District, I did learn some valuable lessons about my country and my own beliefs along the way.

Gloria Purvis: You are not alone in your bad experience in confession, and you can do something to heal from that trial.

“How easy it is to criticize others!” Pope Francis said at his Nov. 3 general audience. “But there are people who seem to have a degree in gossip. Each and every day they criticize others.”

Pope Francis has asked the world to join him in praying for people with depression for the month of November, drawing a connection between depression, overwork and burnout.

“Please have no leniency on me,” Sister Rice once said at trial. ”To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest honor you could give me.”

A draft document about the Eucharist being prepared by a group of U.S. bishops makes only oblique references to Catholic politicians who disagree with church teaching.

With the World Series upon us, a look back at some of America's finest coverage of baseball.

In 1988, A. Bartlett Giamatti, later the commissioner of Major League Baseball, addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors. His speech was printed in America .

“The young, who in recent years have strongly urged us to act, will only inherit the planet we choose to leave to them,” the pope said in his message for the Glasgow climate conference.