NOTHING is more uncertain than prophecy about the profound changes of direction which, from time to time, overtake the human spirit. Who would have guessed, as the seventeenth century drew to an end, ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that the “barbarity of war” should inspire a new push for Christian unity. The pope made the comment in an address to members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting ...

Pope Francis received an ecumenical delegation from Finland on Friday, Jan. 19, on the second day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and to mark the feast of St. Henry of Uppsala. Speaking on ...

It’s a hair-raising prayer, to modern minds. Just rude. Like telling someone that you love and respect him and then telling him he smells bad and he has a 3-year-old’s dress sense and his jokes aren’t ...

Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are told, are locked in “echo chambers,” and they refuse to listen to those ...

James Loughran, S.A., in front of the altar where Paul Wattson, S.A., the co-founder of the Society of the Atonement, celebrated his first Mass as a Catholic priest. (Doug Girardot for America) It is ...

The claim: Video shows Pope acknowledge 'secret agenda,' chastise Christians for watching 'The Hobbit' A Jan. 10 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows Pope Francis speaking briefly in ...

Divided Christians will draw closer to one another only by loving God and loving their neighbors, serving one another and not pointing fingers in blame for past faults, Pope Francis said. Closing the ...