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We yearn for deep relationship, as Mary had with Jesus, but this requires putting away the tools of distraction.

"Statistics show that 80 percent will leave their faith by age 23....We felt the call to help in this new means of evangelization."

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and adjunct assistant professor in Georgetown University’s security studies program says that tougher security measures, restrictions on immigration and a deeper consideration of 'crisis architecture' may be the lasting impact of truck attack in Nice, France.

The blueprint for Pope Francis' pontificate has from the very first instant been Vatican II.

This past May, Pope Francis paid a surprise visit to a L'Arche community just outside of Rome. Here's what one author learned from that very same community when she volunteered there in the late 1990s.

National service could prevent citizens from becoming abstractions to each other.

Donald Trump's pick for vice president has a...complicated relationship with the Catholic Church.

The pope expressed his “profound sadness and his spiritual closeness to the French people,” after yet another horrific attack hit this country of 67 million people, the third in two years.

The parallels are not exact, they never are, but it is all true. Baton Rouge, Dallas, a suburb of Minneapolis. The shooting of black men and cops, the spiral of racial violence, the innocent taken down and the guilty going free, another pathetic novel of real American life.

The debate on same-sex unions for the Anglicans in Canada has been bitter at times.

G.O.P. frontrunner Donald Trump may have (another) Catholic problem on his hands.

Garvey said that requiring commitment by faculty to a Catholic intellectual tradition is not in opposition to academic freedom.

Our struggle to acknowledge continued racism in our country is one reason it persists. Here’s one example of working to make it better.

"It's a choice between hot and hell," said voter Annette Scott.

One year after the Center for Medical Progress released its Planned Parenthood videos, there are a few "what if's" to consider.

Cardinal Nichols: "I look forward to working with you across a wide range of issues in service of the common good."

An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago brings the text and the photographs for “Harlem Is Nowhere” together for the first time since 1948.

For all our supposed refined gentility, the process for changing the leader of the government in the United Kingdom borders on the brutal.

The bill is "a modest but important step in ensuring conscience protection to faith-based organizations and people of all faiths and of no faith who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, protecting them from discrimination by the federal government."

The leader of the Spotlight team says Pope Francis should “listen to the survivors and then take a strong stand.”