This year, an ancient symbol saw its significance magnified all the more on a tragic Ash Wednesday.

While at least one the nominees for Best Picture has an obvious Catholic angle, the other nominees touch on themes that will resonate with Catholics and other believers: love, reconciliation, brokenness and our human longing to be known.

We now mark five years of Francis’ pontificate. The editors of America wish him many more.

‘Lent may once again don its public mask’: America's editors from 1978 on an American Lent.

Resources to help you renew your faith this Lenten season

Mr. Trump’s proposed deal represents an almost complete reversal from previous Republican immigration priorities.

Bipartisanship will be absolutely necessary to pass any meaningful federal legislation that changes our current stalemate on abortion.

For minority, first-generation and low-income students community college can be a ticket to the middle class.

The United States must develop both better warning systems and deterrence tactics.

All the women who responded to this survey still identify themselves as Catholic, however far they may have strayed from a consistent practice of the faith they were raised in.