One Jesuit's encounter with a cop, a cat and several fellow Catholics in search of a connection to the first American pontiff.

Brothers and sisters, when in this life we “choose life,” we are right to see in Mary, assumed into heaven, our own destiny.” ...

Can Pope Leo visit Gaza? Calls for him to do so have mounted in recent weeks, most notably with an Aug. 12 Instagram post from Madonna. But it’s not that easy.

Alone among its international peers, the United States has no national mandate for paid maternity or paternity leave.

Hondurans believe the upcoming election offers an opportunity to restore public confidence in democracy and dodge the return of authoritarianism.

A closer look, however, reveals a similar theme: coming to God and placing all of our faith in Him.

Nothing in revelation requires us to believe that salvation must be easy, likely or equally accessible to all, but it cannot ...

Terrence M. Curry, S.J., is a practicing architect in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he is the director of St. Joseph Studio Workshop.

Today, Catholics are blessed to be able to receive Christ, the bridegroom, daily in the Eucharist and venerate Christ out of love, which is “preferable to fear.” And reminiscing on the 1,300 bleak ...

As in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues to make headlines, the status of the many embryos created and frozen in this ...

When I encounter the Good News as read by Johnny Cash, I encounter it as a living proclamation—not as a dead letter.

It would not have been easy for anyone to step into the shoes of the fisherman after Pope Francis, just as it was not easy for Benedict XVI to follow St. John Paul II. But Leo XIV has done so with ...