The 117th session of Congress got off to a testy start on Sunday, including an opening prayer from an ordained member whose pairing of “A-woman” with the traditional “Amen” raised both hackles and questions about the meaning of the word.

The pandemic has taken a terrible toll on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Latham.

Philip Allen Lacovara, who served as special counsel to Watergate prosecutors, described the president’s call to election officials in Georgia as “a new low in Trumpian mendacity and abuse.”

Pope Francis said that Diego Armando Maradona wasn’t just a skilled soccer player but a true artist.

Gloria Purvis, whose radio show “Morning Glory” was canceled on Dec. 30, said she has no regrets about using the show to discuss racial matters following the police killing of George Floyd.

A genuine discourse about student debt among Christians would greatly benefit from an understanding of the rationale and wisdom embedded in their ancient Mosaic laws.

I searched for some spiritual guru who’d written about attachment and addiction. One name kept coming up: St. Ignatius Loyola.

In 2021, we need fewer resolutions about weight loss and more about building connection.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi commended Kibben for her integrity and patriotism and thanked Father Conroy for his service.

Peace, he insisted, is a gift that requires a human response and human effort.

At the beginning of a year people hope will mark the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, he urged them to create a “culture of care."

God, he continued, is not someone “who would sacrifice human beings for a grand design,” but instead a compassionate and paternal shepherd.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell recap the biggest Vatican moments of 2020.

Archbishop Gänswein said the decision in early 2020 had felt like a punishment, but he now knows this was not the case.

Pope Francis is suffering from “a painful sciatica.”

As is so often the case with old songs, the middle verses bear the greater load of meaningful content (and are also, incidentally, the first forgotten.)

‘I rediscovered crossword puzzles. A way to feel like I’m putting some pieces in place that stay there.’

‘I found that I was able to live more ‘monastically’ than I had ever thought possible.’

“Covid swept away a number of our distractions and so, at least in principle, allowed us to wrestle with the questions that really matter.”

‘You surrender to what is. Covid taught me this.’