The words I am about to share emerge from my pen with difficulty. They may be hard for you to read. They have been hard for ...

The Catholic Church excommunicated Luther. The Lutheran Augsburg Confession calls the papacy the ‘anti-Christ.’ But both ...

To this day, my best friends are people I grew up with on Staten Island. But I am ashamed of how some members of my community ...

The blessing of same-sex couples on Wednesday was the latest sign of rebellion of believers in Germany’s most populous ...

“That finger of Jesus, pointing at Matthew. That’s me. I feel like him. Like Matthew,” the pope said. “It is the gesture of ...

It is easier to get God wrong than right. Much easier, but that should come as no surprise. God said so himself. For my ...

I have yet to see in this context, however, any substantial reflection on a practice that many Catholics (and even some ...

Many fear the endgame in the region will mean widespread loss of life and ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of ...

Katy Carl’s debut collection of short stories examines how people manage change in their lives—whether they have actively ...

In the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, Matthew complicates the idea of fairness in the workplace and in the kingdom ...

In his weekly audience, Pope Francis highlights the apostolic zeal of St. Daniel Comboni, who sought to engage and empower ...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The American public’s views of the family are “complicated” and becoming “more pessimistic than ...