Pope Francis knew that literature is one of the rare human practices still able to establish a common ground.

The clashes between Leo and the Trump administration underscore how U.S. Catholics have come to behave as though they are religious authorities unto themselves.

Masking in both its physical and digital aspects is symptomatic of a culture losing the art of face-to-face encounter.

President Trump’s supporters have offered some implausible scenarios on the likely outcome of his war with Iran—as well as some wild justifications for it.

The growing number of adult baptisms in European and the United States has caught the notice of Church leaders who are attentive to even the smallest signs of revival.

Trump keeps pushing policies that are opposed by Catholic teaching—and this U.S.-born pope doesn’t seem to be willing to keep quiet about them.

A posthumous collection of essays from Helen Vendler illustrates to readers exactly what it means to inhabit a poem.