On Wednesday, I began my review of Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis by Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny and Fr. Christian Barone, in which I looked at the beginning ...

In this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo Italian President Giorgio Napolitano arrives for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Giorgio Napolitano, the first ...

Pope Leo XIV said Catholic educators can learn four fundamental values from St. Augustine’s teachings: interiority, unity, love and joy. During his Oct. 31 audience with teachers in Rome for the Oct.

David DeCosse is the director of religious and Catholic ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and is a regular commentator at National Catholic Reporter. Views are his own. Lessons From ...

Photo via iStock. Credit: Baona. This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. In his 1962 book Travels with Charley: In Search ...

As Lent began in 1946, students in American Catholic schools were treated to a new publication A comic book called "Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact" extolled the value of Lent, showed how salt was made ...

Being a father is an embodied thing—biological, psychological, social, legal. It is—or should be—a total thing, owning wholly the man who dares to become a father. Which is why it is also an ...

Succession is a term that strikes fear in business and political leaders. Threats to order and stability introduce an element of risk to established institutions. With the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV ...

Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don't bark and the wheels that don't squeak. It's likely you didn't hear much about the controversy over House Speaker John Boehner's recent commencement ...

Hurricane Katrina forced Sue Heidel, her husband and three daughters to move to Houston. But they already feel right at home. Heidel, a teacher at New Orleans' Academy of the Sacred Heart, will be ...