Travelling lightly does not come naturally to me. Every morning I fill my work bag with all sorts of things I might want for ...

Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, called Artsakh by Armenians, has been ongoing since 1988, when the enclave’s parliament voted ...

The image of God as our heavenly Father allows us to consider the unfathomable possibility that a close relationship with God is not only possible but available and one permeated by love.

Faith begins with the perception of another, someone who is not us, who is not of our world. We do not see this other, not in ...

Four years and more than $700 million after the launch of the ad campaign Americans remain just as polarized. That reality, ...

In his General Audience message on Feb 4., Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican ...

I am amazed by the amount of reflection that came from a simple question from my daughter: Why don’t I want to get a manicure ...

The current situation requires that everything possible be done to avert a new arms race that would further threaten peace ...

Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, custos of the Holy Land, urged pilgrims to return not only as an opportunity to be where ...

In today’s passage, we see a dynamic that is likely all too familiar in our own lives. Those who are closest to Jesus—the ones who grew up with him, who knew him when he was just another kid from the ...

In 1982, 'America' paired essays by Cardinal John O'Connor and Gordon Zahn, the noted American sociologist and peace advocate ...

Bishop John J. O’Connor, then the auxiliary bishop to the Military Vicar, wrote on chaplains in 'America' in 1982.