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A poorer U.S. church, even one made poor through tragedy, might find that it meets the vision of Pope Francis' hope of a "poor Church for the poor." Such a Church will require more Catholics to take personal responsibility for the mission of the parish, the diocese, and, ultimately, the Gospel.

Brother Robert Bathe is the friar on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Vatican Museums receive millions of visitors each year, and generated around $87 million annually as of 2015.

"Many people are more scared of hunger than the virus."

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding's bestseller.

Path to Perfection: Rise Above the Transient.

Jesuit Father Antonio Guerrero Alves, who last year succeeded Cardinal George Pell as prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, said the "most optimistic calculate a decrease in revenue of around 25 percent, the most pessimistic, around 45 percent."

Koppel speaks to Walter Isaacson about the state of journalism and democracy today, with the U.S. in the throes of the impeachment trial.

A New Jersey Catholic church buried Friday two infants who were found dead at a recycling center a few months ago.

What is the correct perspective into which the average citizen should put the current pandemic of the coronavirus, assuming that there is a single correct perspective for him to put it into?

Who in America would ever have thought that such religious suppression would exist in our country?

"People have the impression that we priests are mere bachelors, living a simple life, doing our own thing. But we want to be with our families, which is our parish communities. It hit us hard not to be gathering with you."

St. Augustine said that believing is necessary for understanding. Honesty and a bit of historical and biblical understanding are helpful too.

Queerness has conquered America because it is the distilled essence of the country's post-1960s therapeutic culture.

We no longer try to persuade those who do not share our beliefs. Instead, we resort to insults and name-calling.

Our Lord drank wine and turned water into wine.

The root of the work-from-home philosophy is not leisure, but life integration — something we've lost in modern times.

"If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it" (John 14:14). I don't understand those words. I never have. Because how can they possibly be true?

Education has as much to do with communicating a style of life we share with others as it does the communication of bare "information."