In this humorous memoir, New York Times bestselling author Father James Martin tells the story of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, and corporate tool and, finally, a Je...

In this sweet memoir, Jesuit priest Martin (Learning to Pray) reminisces about the summer jobs that prepared him for his calling...

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

Texas A&M University’s restrictions on teaching race or gender reinstall an older moral architecture, asking universities to prepare students fo...

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The question comes up once a year: Why are we celebrating a feast for a building?

After participating in "Good Morning America" co-anchor Gio Benitez's confirmation Mass, some conservative Catholics unleashed a barrage of online attacks on Jesuit Fr. James Martin. Martin's crime? B...

"The best introduction to Dorothy Day and the spirit of the Catholic Worker."—Jeff Dietrich, The Catholic Agitator "Jim Forest's book about Dorothy Day is much like the grand lady herself: disarming i...

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Synodal representatives in Italy voted overwhelmingly to accept documents calling for greater openness to LGBTQ people. Italian bishops will weigh in next.

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The key is to continue to be in relationship with a God whom we sometimes don’t understand.

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When it comes to money, our focus should be clear.

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Jesus knows you well. But there is also an invitation to make yourself known to Jesus in the spiritual life.

“The definition of desolation is notoriously slippery,” Father James Martin writes. “It is not simply a period of dryness in prayer, which is common to everyone.”

Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...