We use the words “mystery” and “miracle” not to say that science has been stumped but rather to express the expansive claim that an event makes upon us.

How a state with just 3 percent Catholics shaped the first U.S.-born martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church

This documentary can be considered one more piece of the recent American narrative pushing us continually to wake up to our past injustices.

California Native people prayed at a makeshift altar before activists took down the statue of Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan credited with spreading the Catholic faith but also seen as part of an imperial conquest.

Peter and Paul, Pope Francis noted, provide valuable role models to encourage us toward unity and prophecy.

All will be well and all will be well: even now?