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

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

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

I am struggling to smile and nod and accept the message from well-intentioned people, whom I love, that everything will be ...

Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” scandalized Italian audiences. But it was a group of Jesuit priests who were determined to ...

The cause for the canonization of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus, took an important step ...

Pope Francis’ encyclicals have drawn from and lead to this truth: What the world needs is heart—not sentimentality, but integration, presence and fortitude to stay in the tensions of our current ...

What I saw at the U.S.-Mexico border reminded me of the solidarity with migrants so often lacking in our country today.

How did this year’s session differ from last year’s? What does this mean for our church? For my parish? For me, personally?

Our readers weigh in on the value and spiritual benefits of vegetarianism, inspired by the experience of Fr. Francis X.

I am rather fond of my native land and her robust and quirky republican traditions, but Jesus did not preach democracy nor ...