Francis may not pray in tongues, writes Austen Ivereigh, but no pope has ever identified as closely with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, nor been so keen to move it front and center of the church.

The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.

The treaty’s offhand attitude toward the non-European world stirred up resentments that lingered for decades.

Again, the bullet. Again, the agony. We are repeating the day over and over, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

Joe Bonomo's well-written take on Roger Angell's musings on baseball.

A devotee of the opera, Brown eagerly gave tickets to his students, hoping to get them totally immersed in the arias he loved.

Bitcoin has value because people believe in it and evangelize it, and the more that value increases, the more incentive there is to evangelize it.

John Sexton’s passion and commitment are infectious, and one cannot help hoping along with him that our universities will be able to realize the great aspirations that he has for them.

The number of U.S. parishes without resident pastors has leveled off to about 3,400, according to the latest data from CARA—but only after dioceses have closed down thousands of churches since 1990.

Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.

Most Americans want Washington to change how it works. But attacking Washington is like punching into fog.

At a new residential complex in North Carolina, graduate students and adults with developmental disabilities share living quarters and meet in prayer.

The pain wasn’t in dying/ but in belief in you, that you required of me

Religious liberty and the relationship between church and state are two issues that have long vexed the Catholic Church, particularly since the Enlightenment.

Do you have a “guilty pleasure” hymn that you love?

Critics and supporters of the Vatican’s latest document on gender and sexuality may find little common ground on the issue, but they can agree on this: The church needs to further a dialogue about transgender individuals.

The nation's worst measles outbreak in decades is prompting states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules.