Benedict learned from experience that pushing yourself too hard can be a road to spiritual ruin. There is a fine line between work that glorifies God and work that merely glorifies yourself.

With the miners came violence and diseases like malaria, to which the relatively isolated Indians had no resistance. In one village, no one survived. In others, as many as one-third of the villagers succumbed, some to disease and others to malnutrition.

An exhibit on Chinese empresses featured a rare display by two Jesuit missionaries whose artwork was in the past largely seen only by royalty and high government officials.

To preach Jesus is primarily to preach a path, a call to action, not ethical precepts.

The November 1967 issue of Liturgical Arts presented architectural drawings, conceptual essays and theological reflections on the topic “A Chapel on the Moon: 2000 A.D.”

The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA will be crucial in determining whether the remains in a small Vatican cemetery belong to Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983, a Vatican-appointed forensic anthropologist said.

Bishop John E. Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, bishop-president of Pax Christi USA, and Bishop Marc Stenger of Troyes, France, co-president of Pax Christi International, were among the signers of a statement released July 8.

"The evidence shows sadly that the situation is becoming worse," said British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

This year, the Catholic Diocese of Memphis closed the nine Jubilee Catholic Schools at the end of the school year due to financial shortfalls.

“We have to admit that things move very slowly in the church,” Sharon Holland, I.H.M., told America, “But this is a piece of really good news.”

Two new reports conclude that China is engaging in organ harvesting and a child separation campaign against the country’s Uighur Muslim minority.

The Editors: The United States risks engaging in an unending financial war with Iran that could slip into a military one at the slightest provocation.

An Encounter with Silence

The 50th anniversary of the moon landing provides not just a moment for nostalgia but an occasion to revisit the values that should inform our public judgment.

I have learned that belief is not unique to those who consider themselves religious.

The bill's author, state Democratic Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo decided to shelve his bill after learning that it did not have enough votes to pass out of the committee.

The Franciscan sister moved to Kermit, West Virginia, 10 years ago, just a few months after the now infamous FBI shutdown of a town pharmacy.

China's ruling Communist Party has carried out a widespread crackdown on all religious institutions in recent years.

The fate of former President Barack Obama's signature health care law, and its coverage and insurance protections for millions of Americans, is again being argued before a panel of judges — this time a federal appeals court in New Orleans.

Lavelle’s high school, Mount Notre Dame, spent the days before the final excitedly cheering her on via Twitter.