What is prayer and how can we pray? How do I know if God is responding to my prayers? What does it mean to live a spiritual life? “The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.,” focuses on ...

Poems are usually accepted for the Foley Poetry Award every year between Jan. 1 and March 31. Please visit americamedia.submittable.com for full details.

Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm.

Arts & Culture, Catholic Book Club From high-brow classics to beach reads: 100 years of book recommendations from America magazine ...

Serving life by caring for others is “the supreme law” that comes before all of society’s rules, Pope Leo XIV said in his first Angelus address at the papal summer residence.

The Irish government “has done nothing to reduce the numbers of abortions…and seems not to care why women choose abortion, or what happens to them afterwards,” Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin ...

The relics of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis, who are set to be canonized later this year, will be displayed in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth.

What about the superpower you already have? Because today the church suggests that it is prayer. Prayer is power, and prayer is supernatural. It comes from outside this world. Some might object ...

The Scopes trial has long been depicted as a clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism. But it was also a chapter in the eugenic racism that had become a creed of social elites in ...

I felt two things when Stephen Colbert announced last Thursday that in nine months, CBS would be ending his top-rated “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” I felt uncomfortable. And I felt old.

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III gave a press conference after visiting the Holy Family Parish church, which was struck by Israeli forces.

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin.