Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “focused on the war in Ukraine” when they met at the papal summer ...

Vatican II closed 60 years ago this week. One of its final documents, “Gaudium et Spes,” has also proved to be perhaps its ...

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan announced Dec. 8 that the Archdiocese of New York would be entering into mediation and taking steps ...

Pope Leo has been critical of the Trump administration's immigration policy, particularly its treatment of migrants, calling ...

Today’s Gospel passage from Matthew seems to reinforce the idea that Christian belief is that simple. Just “Come to me,” ...

We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,” the Rev. Michael Woolf said.

Here is the lesser-known third verse of the Christmas carol “Joy to the World,” which Isaac Watts penned in 1719: No more let ...

The history of the Society of Jesus in America mirrors that of the nation: full of promise and contradiction; always being ...

The stories of the Bible are fantastic,” said Kevin Costner in an interview ahead of a new Christmas special airing this week ...

Religion in America might be best described in the words of rap artist LL Cool J: Don’t call it a comeback. At least not yet.

Third grade was a very special year when it came to the annual Christmas concert, because the third graders were tasked with ...

Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and ...