The "poor in spirit," to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount, are the humble people who live with an awareness of ...

Pope Francis told journalists Saturday that their profession has a great responsibility, the foundation of which should be humility. "Humility is an essential virtue for spiritual life; but I would ...

As many Catholics try to understand what Pope Francis might mean by a "synodal church," he highlighted some of the essential characteristics — especially humility and trust — in homilies and speeches ...

The DDF's prefect, notes Daniel Horan, "specifically mentions 'listening to others' and 'opening ourselves to other points of ...

During his Sunday visit to Rome's Anglican parish of All Saints, Pope Francis voiced gratitude for the good relations Catholics and Anglicans now enjoy, and said that on the path toward full communion ...

Professor Scott Hahn on Friday, April 4, spoke to Harvard’s Catholic Church, St. Paul’s, about the saving truth of Scripture. Hahn, one of today’s most well-known American Catholic scholars, has ...

Has the pontiff regained the moral high ground, and with it the respect and trust of the global Catholic community? That’s the question Pope Francis will find the answer to in the coming year, as he ...

In trying to live up to Jesus’s message about solidarity with the poor, Pope Francis has called for a church geared to social justice. This pope wants church officials to live more modestly. As he ...

Ross Douthat at the ‘Civility in America Part 1: Religion’ event held at The Sheen Center in New York, Dec. 13, 2018. (Photo: America/Antonio DeLoera-Brust) Ross Douthat is up to something. He has ...