Many people who oppose the idea of women as deacons fear that the potential candidates aren’t faithful Catholics. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Pope Francis has said that going on pilgrimage is “one of the people of God’s most eloquent expressions of faith.” Why?

I have called myself a peacemaker. I have never held a gun and never want to. But I am also a father, and I will always protect my children.

In San Diego and Boston, in Burbank and Chicago and Orange Beach, Ala., libraries all over the country have been ending the dispensing of fines for overdue books.

When L.G.B.T. people look at the communion of the saints, we should be able to see someone who looks like us.

It is Christ who sets the table and draws up the guest list. Who are we, serving at that table, to amend his invitation?