Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats face a critical choice on how much to work with Republicans on government funding when Congress returns next week — with a government ...

If you had told Jonathan Cheek when he attended his first Mass that in a few years’ time, his whole family would be Catholic and he would be filming a YouTube series about the faith, he wouldn’t have ...

These sparkling essays on a variety of interesting subjects are written with insight and wit by an author widely recognized as one of the finest masters of English prose in the Catholic Church today.

The chance of snow is closing out the weekend in the tri-state area, according to the National Weather Service. New York is on the brink of what could become the largest nurses’ strike in state ...

Today’s Gospel makes two major points: the need for fraternal correction and the communal context of prayer and salvation. Jesus speaks about how to correct a brother. Before we even look at Jesus’ ...

The word “church” (ekklesia) is rare in the Gospels, appearing in only two verses and only in Matthew’s narrative. In both cases, the community’s authority to forgive sins, its ability to “bind and ...