The church does not have a mission -- rather, God's mission has a church, a priest told a gathering of women religious Thursday morning. Divine Word Fr. Stephen Bevans told approximately 800 members ...

In the wake of an important document on the priesthood, two members of religious congregations offer a few reflections in conversation with the document on another kind of priesthood that is exercised ...

Going door to door “is not really a Catholic practice that we’ve done often in the past,” said the Rev. Stephen Bevans, professor of mission and culture at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

This past Nov. 2, as I was preparing my homily for the celebration of the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, I got a new insight into the meaning of our Catholic doctrine of the Communion of ...

In "The Stillborn God," a history of the separation of church and state, Mark Lilla urges the West to remember the religious fanaticism in its past -- or risk its return.