Pope Francis will be spending a few precious hours at the Basilica of Knock while he is in Ireland this weekend.

An unlikely kinship between two political foes.

Chris Matthews’s cri de coeur for a time and a spirit that is hard to imagine now.

Christmas is a wonderful and joyful mystery and we humans can never, ever really understand it.

Larger-than-life figures, social mayhem, political chaos and a foreign war.

Catholics are following the general public in a broader acceptance of cremation.

Breslin, the legendary New York reporter and columnist, died last week at 88.

While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.

Smith was a man who believed that faith in God was not incompatible with faith in the people.

Father Linehan was intellectually gifted, socially aware and ever curious.