A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a New York City church where pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed provocative scenes for a music ...

Flying bishops, eminent birthdays and getting lost in translation: Funny stuff that Father James Martin heard inside the synod hall.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Christian faith that does not disturb the powers that be and cannot generate a serious commitment to ...

In 1960, novelist and literary critic Doris Grumbach reflected on the art—and science—of book reviewing, including Catholic ...

Doris Grumbach (1918-2022) was an American novelist, biographer, literary critic and essayist. She wrote for America many times between 1951 and 1973.

Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute ...

Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera of Jinotega was forced to leave Nicaragua after accusing a local Sandinista mayor of sacrilege for disturbing a celebration of the Mass by blaring loud music outside the ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...

A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty one may encounter when reading Scripture. A survey commissioned by the ...

This fixation on, and animosity toward, darkness is partly why I cling to luminescent imagery whenever it appears in Scripture.

It hit me: He is paying the disciples a beautiful compliment, recognizing the good he has seen in them through their shared time together as friends. They are living out God’s will, and thus he is ...