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We buried one of my heroes last month. She was my mother-in-law. In the case of Helen Boyle, “hero” might be a form of understatement.

Far from being an oddity best ignored, "Populorum progressio" still offers vital resources for the dilemmas and decisions now facing the church.

"It was anybody’s son at the door/   in the dripping green slicker/      with the unsigned contract for selling my soul"

"Rare amalgam of Word and Spirit / structure and energy, / the dance of one and many, / of loss and gain."

"After two weeks’ absence, the clover is high as a fence. / The weeds are white-tipped frills of grass"

The grass-roots vitality Trump has unleashed against him in just a month is already close to matching the positive enthusiasm Obama nurtured in his 2008 campaign.

'Paterson' isn’t my Paterson, New Jersey, nor could it be—too much water over the Falls

While the Church of the Covenant of the Sacred Heart serves as a haven, Turkey itself can be hard on those forced to make the country their temporary home.

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy draws a bright moral line

Readers chime in on liturgical issues, Martin Scorsese's faith, and the catholicity of our colleges and universities.

If America has seen itself as China’s big brother, helping it to navigate the currents of modernity, this view was seldom shared by Chinese leaders.

Vittorio Montemaggi's unconventional book argues that, for Dante, human life is a journey toward union with God that must be undertaken with others.

Echoing Day's own prose, her granddaughter captures the beauty of nature in all its specificity

What are the implications of sanctuary – not as a set of individual cases, and not for us individually as citizens, but rather systemically, as policy?