The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for a young Italian wife and mother who avoided inducing a premature birth and invasive treatment for cancer while she was pregnant.

In the Sonoran Desert northeast of Ajo, temperatures can soar to mid-90s in late spring and above 100 degrees in the summer. This also is where hundreds of unfortunate migrants have taken their last breath.

While discernment is never easy, it was even more complicated as a Latino.

So what does it matter what a celibate woman thinks about contraception?

With his "Mass," Leonard Bernstein uses liturgy to give voice to political unease.

Women often “bring up the voice of those who are the most vulnerable in our society,” says Hans Zollner, S.J., who heads the Centre for Child Protection in Rome.