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 .

We experience the death of others—but not as they do. We only know that they are gone, and that fact alone is nigh impossible to comprehend.

The utter multitude of souls created and redeemed by God is necessary to imagine even a fraction of God’s plenitude.

The synod office extended the timeline at the request of dioceses who asked for more time to hear the thoughts of Catholics.

Meeting at the Vatican with Pope Francis, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended an invitation to Francis to become the third pope in history to visit India.

Where did the practice of praying the rosary come from, and why is it such an important part of so many Catholics’ spiritual lives?