The end of winter in New York sometimes feels rife with melancholy. A few spring days taunt with the warmth and new life to ...

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, died in Lima on April 13. His critics and followers ...

The Dalai Lama has hopes for Tibet, but as someone who knows the feeling of having governance forced upon him all too well, he does not say that these conditions are the absolutely correct ones.

This is why I said earlier that these are pages born “from the thought and the affection” of Cardinal Scola: not only from thought, but also from the emotional dimension, which is the one to which ...

Over the coming days, tens of thousands of people are expected to pass through St. Peter’s Basilica to bid farewell to Pope Francis. His funeral Mass is scheduled for Saturday.

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...

Most Americans may not regularly attend church themselves, but they have a higher threshold for calling someone a regular ...

It’s easy to label someone who never goes to church as nonreligious, but when you go one layer deeper — to the afterlife — you can see that there’s still a whole lot of people with some level of ...

In the still 5 a.m. darkness, street lights flicker as cars circle to find parking. Friends and families embrace at the base ...

The funeral rites take place in three parts, called stations. The first takes place in the pope’s private chapel, after ...

Pope Francis — the first pontiff from the Americas, who clashed with traditional Catholics but was hailed as a reformer by progressives — died on Monday, a day after Easter, at age 88. The pope had ...

Data shows that organized religion is better for society than disorganized spirituality. Whether it’s mental health, building ...