On Sept. 30, Pope Francis met with a delegation of women at the Vatican who presented voices from the Amazon region and ...

As Pope Francis likes to say, reality is more important than ideas, so examining legitimate diversity among the churches will ...

Entitlement is not generally seen as a commendable virtue. Think of the beatitudes: "Blessed are the poor in spirit … those ...

When have you engaged with people whose life experiences are vastly different from your own, and how did these interactions ...

Pope Francis on Sept. 29 strongly condemned the disproportionate use of military force for the purposes of retaliation and ...

"Just war theory was not part of the Gospel, it's an evolutionary Catholic practice or thought, and it's an important development in restraining warfare," Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego said ...

To act prophetically is to speak truth to power, knowing that the prophetic word is always a graced word, no matter how ...

Pope Francis on Sept. 28 slammed the "arrogant indifference" of powerful leaders who put financial interests over efforts to ...

Cinema can serve as a connection to the divine, writes Jose Solís, and Víctor Erice's "Close Your Eyes" is an invitation to ...

Pope Francis on Sept. 27 kicked off a three-day trip to Belgium by asking forgiveness for the church's shameful record on ...

Vice President Kamala Harris understands, and is getting better at communicating, the core Catholic teaching about economics: ...

The show's lasting reputation has little to do with politics or policy, "West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell told NCR. It ...