In a radical departure from recent pastoral practice, Pope Francis has asked the world's Catholic clergy to let their lives become "wonderfully complicated" by embracing God's grace at work in the ...

In the American political conscience, there lingers a myth: That real change comes from exhortation — passionate, unyielding exhortation — that moves the hearts of men and women. According to this ...

When my parents went to schedule my older brother’s baptism at a Catholic church, the priest told them their baby was a bastard. Because my parents were married in the Episcopal Church, their child ...