The Vatican has announced the appointment of Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini as the new papal preacher, succeeding Cardinal ...

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, who earlier prohibited specific hymns and composers, has now issued a new decree ...

What caused Dorothy Day to stand out in her time, as it does still, is the way her spiritual life was expressed not only in ...

Today, I want to be the foreigner going against the grain, giving thanks to God and glorifying him even when it is anathema ...

After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, the Democrats have repeatedly failed to hold together the coalition that elected the ...

Will we reach out our hands to help? Will we be ready to rend our garments for them or will we pass them by—glum goats, ...

Kamala Harris did worse with women, Hispanics and young people than did the Democratic candidates in the last two ...

Dorothy Day called for “a revolution of the heart,” a shift away from self-interest to solidarity. That isn’t accomplished by ...

History was made on Nov. 5, when Francis, the first Jesuit pope, visited the Gregorian University, the oldest and largest ...

"Reminders to “be kind,” or the hope for a quiet life with just enough creature comforts and just enough distraction are ...