A man who meant to be a priest is faced with a moral crossroads in this ambitious and affecting first novel ...

Can we ever exist fully as ourselves on our own, or do we always depend, at some deeper level, on the presence of another ...

The pope vs. the president melodrama has proved irresistible to global media; how could it not? It also produced a fair ...

Vermeer’s maid who’s asleep is not drunk, her pearls not on her ears but on the table, for her my admiration can’t be shrunk.

War is nothing new for America — but the way Pete Hegseth talks about it is. President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense ...

The dramatic rise in new Catholics receiving baptism and the other sacraments of Christian initiation this Easter is nearly ...

Kerry Saver, a retired teacher, says Bel Canto changed her life. She auditioned for the chorus in 1981 without having taken a ...

The Gospel of Matthew is alive and well on stage at Folsom Lake College, as Falcon’s Eye Theatre presents Godspell. In 1971, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A year after Pope Francis’ death, the enduring mark of his papacy is how he changed the Church’s ...

When a pope and a president work together for peace, without compromising with evil, they can achieve what’s otherwise ...

On a foggy morning and under an occasional drizzle, parishioners from four local churches continued a 60 year-old Easter tradition. About two dozen parishioners from the Church of St. Barnabus, ...

For Pearl Jam lifers, there are dream gigs — and then there’s what Geoff Whitman has been doing for the past two years. As ...