The dramatic history of the compound next to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva includes papal conclaves and the Inquisition interrogation of Galileo Galilei.

The president’s energy policy “has left the country unprepared for his war,” Thomas Reese writes.

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with …

What then are we to say of God? If you have understood what you are trying to say, it is not God. — St. Augustine

From the Gospel of the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A: Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now …