Ellis Marsalis Jr. began his teaching career in the 1960s at Xavier University, the nation's only historically black Roman Catholic college. The news on April 1 that he had died of COVID-19-related pneumonia opened a river of national tributes for New Orleans' premier jazz pianist, professor and the patriarch of a musical family with remarkable aesthetic reach.

Review: This FX series is about women and identifying, negotiating, taking and shaping personal, political, corporate, social and cultural power in American life. Phyllis Schlafly is the opposite of a radical feminist, or even a Christian feminist.

Commentary: How can we go on being a eucharistic people, indeed an Easter people, without the Lord's Supper? Let's take our grief and search for the grace that resides within it.

United Nations leaders, humanitarian experts and sister advocates at the U.N. are alarmed by the pandemic's potential for a global humanitarian crisis in regions already facing conflict and economic hardship.

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Explore the integration of story, spirituality and ecology with mythologist Sharon Blackie and musician Sara Thomsen at an online event May 1–2.

Saint Maur International School seeks a qualified, experienced Religious Studies teacher of the Catholic faith to teach in its secondary school.

The Rosary of Modern Sorrows: A social justice rosary dedicated to the most vulnerable.