"Just who do you think you are?" How many of us heard that from a teacher, a peer, a parent or someone else who was less than pleased with us at that moment? This rhetorical question springs from an ...

Many men enter seminaries and religious communities well after the age traditionally associated with priestly formation. Some ...

"The demand for ideological conformity to extreme views combined with the structural impediment caused by gerrymandered ...

Writings by St. Thomas Aquinas laid the groundwork for the concept back in the 13th century, but the Industrial Revolution ...

The pontiff prayed for peace in the Holy Land, and in Ukraine and Russia. He also prayed for Colombia following an earthquake ...

The veteran New Testament scholar has written and edited widely-read works including The Misunderstood Jew, The Bible With and Without Jesus and The Jewish Annotated New Testament.

For most mornings this summer, Zac Kissell, a rising junior at the University of Dayton, has woken up early to begin his work in the dirt. He has tended garden beds where zucchini, squash and tomatoes ...

Faith-based anti-death penalty activists have used the bell-tolling tactic throughout the country. Bells ran again Aug. 13, a ...

Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate needs to explain how he intends to achieve his goals, writes NCR's Michael Sean ...

The sound of New Mexico in the early afternoon is a quiet, sun-baked silence, broken only by the wind moving through the canyon trees of the high mountains. For popular music producer Cameron "Cam" ...

Pope Leo XIV returned to Assisi on Aug. 6 for the second time in his pontificate, addressing more than 2,000 young people ...

Pope Leo XIV said he was deeply saddened by the loss of life and destruction following a powerful earthquake that struck Colombia, leaving more than 100 dead and dozens of collapsed buildings. The ...