A novel should have substance, should be coherent, should contain vivid characterization; and it is the better for a well-constructed plot,” wrote Thomas Francis Ritt in a 1951 book review for America ...

Pope Leo XIV offers his advice to young people on finding authentic true love and commitment in marriage in a new book foreword published Oct. 6.

The history of the golden rose reveals the shift of papal priorities from political alliance-building to devotional symbolism ...

A new light show at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York promises transcendence...but the real transcendence might be in the ...

Perhaps there is something required of guests in order to attend this banquet that this individual evidently lacked. Across Matthew’s Gospel we have been encouraged by Jesus’ example and teaching to ...

Chesterton’s quip that “Doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.” In St. Paul’s Letter ...

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is Professor Emerita of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island.

A Reflection for the Optional Memorial of St. John Henry Newman, Priest and Doctor of the Church, by Maurice Timothy Reidy ...

To the astonishment of the Vatican and the world, Pope Francis has delivered yet another surprise: He kept a private diary ...

Pope Leo XIV waves after leading the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV commemorated the eighth ...

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” a look back at the tense 2014 and 2015 synods on the family and what Pope Francis decided in “Amoris Laetitia” “Ever since hearing the painful news about Maysa and ...

Since 1930, the St. Francis Breadline has stayed open though blackouts, blizzards and rainstorms, serving without judgment everyone who comes.