October 2018

There was always anger at assault allegations: touching, drugging, choking; at pay gaps, at locker-room talk. But the anger I’m feeling has changed—for the worse

A Catholic nun from the South Indian state of Kerala has defied her congregation to publicly accuse a prominent bishop of repeatedly raping her for two years.

St. Francis, whose feast is October 4, somehow managed to reconcile his love for the church with his understanding of it as an institution corrupted by power

A new book follows a group of activists working for racial justice in Chicago and reveals the complex dynamics of tackling injustice

Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was intemperate, partisan, possibly perjurious, plainly injudicious—and disqualifying

Despite the lack of attention from many Catholics, the stakes at the synod on young people really couldn’t be higher

As in the sixteenth century, the question is not whether the Catholic Church will survive this age of scandal, but what form the church will survive in