Overall, we wish to see seminarians formed to continue to live out the values that were promoted by the Second Vatican Council and that Pope Francis has reminded us are still in the process of being realized.

God may speak to me on Sunday morning in church, but I am just as likely to see the divine touch in a dragonfly or a towering redwood tree or the cry of a newborn infant.

A case for the Latin American church as a source church that generates theology rather than simply employs theology from another time and place.

As the conflict continued, thoughts of the common good faded into the background—until the conflagration of April 15 brought them to the fore.

"Freedom is a matter of the heart. It is not a matter of doing what you want to do at any time you want to do it."

Ultimately, my journey to learn about Mary is ongoing, and as the woman whose pilgrimage shrines are scattered all around the world, Mary is the perfect guide on this spiritual path.

This was no “mission accomplished” speech, no self-congratulatory paean to the victor, by the victor. It was the opposite: a humble, unadorned statement by Lincoln of how he viewed the war in its larger, deeper sense.

Every year without fail the Christmas season reminds me of my favorite Nativity poem by T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi. I’ve gone back to this poem time and again, and invariably it incites in me new…

Our God, we say, is a profound mystery—infinite, unfathomable, beyond our deepest desires, beyond our greatest expectations. Recently, I was struck by this truth of our faith once again as I listened…

  In honor of the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero scheduled for October 14, 2018, we were grateful to print these personal reflections of Fr. Robert Washabaugh. Archbishop Romero (b. 1917…

Martin Luther King often described his moral vision as one of “agapic love.” Agape is Greek for “distinterested love”—to King it was “a love in which the individual seeks not his own good,”…