CNS Photo Last week a friend invited me to attend the world premiere of the film Saint of 9/11, a documentary that tells the story of Father ...

It all started with a desperate prayer from a desperate man: Lord deliver me from myself I'm in trouble, I need your help... Not too long ago, Vance Watt was caught in ...

The other day, while toting my inquisitive four-year-old daughter to preschool, our chat about contemporary political corruption was interrupted by a familiar smell. Taking a moment at a red ...

The Collar chronicles the journey of five men who have left their careers and former lives behind to begin formation for the Roman Catholic priesthood. In his realistic, human, ...

"We never know when grace is going to hit us" says Sister Helen Prejean at the start of our interview. The sixty-seven-year old author and activist knows what she is talking ...

Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness had something to do ...

Ray McGovern served God and country for 27 years as a member of the CIA by keeping his work secret. Today, along with a group of other Intelligence veterans, ...

Rev. James Martin--Jesuit priest and associate editor of America magazine--has written and edited numerous books on the spiritual life, including the memoir In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate ...

"The good news for humans is that it looks like peaceable conditions, once established, can be maintained" says primatologist Frans de Waal. "And if Baboons can do it, why ...

Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen are two of America's most esteemed contemporary fiction writers. They are also fast friends and Catholics (in very different ways, as our interview reveals)....