The University of Notre Dame is awarding the prestigious Laetare medal, an honor reserved exclusively for American Catholics, to Timothy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics.

The nominees suggest "that both pure materialism and organized religion are either harmful or insufficient for addressing the problems of life," writes Joseph Holmes. "The answer is for individuals to ...

Pope Leo XIV demanded a ceasefire in the Middle East on Sunday in his strongest comments to date, directly addressing the leaders who launched the war in Iran.

Opposing philosophies, distilled from two ancient sacred texts, are colliding in horrific ways, writes columnist Phyllis ...

The move and the consolidation of Leo's team suggest a new chapter is opening as his pontificate nears the one-year mark.

A friends of the court brief outlines opposition to mass surveillance and eliminating human oversight of autonomous weapons.

Bishop-designate Godfrey Mullen, 60, is a native son of the diocese and currently serves as its administrator.

These prayers rarely appear in books about spirituality. They are too brief, too ordinary, too woven into the fragile rhythms of daily life. Yet they carry a depth that formal words sometimes cannot ...

We can't change the mistakes of our past — not even if we're Tyra Banks — but we can and should reflect seriously on them, ...

In "My Son, the Priest," author Kristin Grady Gilger recounts the long and winding road of accepting her son's Jesuit ...

Hours after a terrorist gunman attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger ...

On this Easter morn, let us heed the command to start again, to reinterpret everything in our own lives and all of history in the light of Christ's definitive victory over evil.