Pope Leo XIV said Catholic educators can learn four fundamental values from St. Augustine’s teachings: interiority, unity, love and joy. During his Oct. 31 audience with teachers in Rome for the Oct.

On Wednesday, I began my review of Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis by Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny and Fr. Christian Barone, in which I looked at the beginning ...

Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) addresses Protestant leaders in Houston in 1960. (Houston Chronicle/AP) In September 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, against the advice of his ...

David DeCosse is the director of religious and Catholic ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and is a regular commentator at National Catholic Reporter. Views are his own. Lessons From ...

In this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo Italian President Giorgio Napolitano arrives for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Giorgio Napolitano, the first ...

Photo via iStock. Credit: Baona. This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. In his 1962 book Travels with Charley: In Search ...

Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don't bark and the wheels that don't squeak. It's likely you didn't hear much about the controversy over House Speaker John Boehner's recent commencement ...

I don't know what President Obama was thinking. Speaking in Northern Ireland last week, he said Catholic schools are divisive: “If towns remain divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings ...

Hurricane Katrina forced Sue Heidel, her husband and three daughters to move to Houston. But they already feel right at home. Heidel, a teacher at New Orleans' Academy of the Sacred Heart, will be ...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don't bark and the wheels that don't squeak. It's likely you didn't hear much about the controversy over House Speaker John Boehner's recent ...