For Pope Francis, Matteo Ricci is not so much a figure of the past but rather “a prophetic figure” who nourishes the hope of ...

An investigation launched after the video revealed that Msgr. Gigantiello made unauthorized financial transfers to a former ...

A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of ...

Flying bishops, eminent birthdays and getting lost in translation: Funny stuff that Father James Martin heard inside the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Christian faith that does not disturb the powers that be and cannot generate a serious commitment to ...

Doris Grumbach (1918-2022) was an American novelist, biographer, literary critic and essayist. She wrote for America many times between 1951 and 1973.

Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute ...

Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera of Jinotega was forced to leave Nicaragua after accusing a local Sandinista mayor of sacrilege for disturbing a celebration of the Mass by blaring loud music outside the ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...

This fixation on, and animosity toward, darkness is partly why I cling to luminescent imagery whenever it appears in Scripture.

A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty one may encounter when reading Scripture. A survey commissioned by the ...

It hit me: He is paying the disciples a beautiful compliment, recognizing the good he has seen in them through their shared time together as friends. They are living out God’s will, and thus he is ...