Pope Francis has approved changing the liturgical feast of St. Martha to include her sister and brother, Mary and Lazarus.

None of the saints associated with the United States are of African descent. The Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University intends to change that, and here are six possibilities for sainthood.

The Catholic physician and researcher Jerome Lejeune devoted his life to protecting unborn children with Down syndrome from so-called “therapeutic abortion.”

The full context of Augustine’s line is perhaps not as rosy as Joe Biden might have suggested.

I searched for some spiritual guru who’d written about attachment and addiction. One name kept coming up: St. Ignatius Loyola.

The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting "the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies."