October 2025

"When a ninety-year-old Catholic mother dies, a man who’s been at the parish for fewer than six years puts on a robe, says a few words, and then we go home. And every time I think, you have no idea who you had here."

Our culture is marked by a competitive victimization. But perhaps we need to see what both secular and religious perpetrators of violence have in common.

In a new collection of translated works, the Japanese literary giant Shūsaku Endō wrestles with shame and the relentless pull of faith.

If Democrats hope to return to power, they will have to abandon the conceit that theirs is the party of moral high-mindedness.

Calling Democrats "too woke" won't save the party. It just buys into a zero-sum Republican framing of the issue.

Pope Leo XIV’s first exhortation, on love for the poor, is a tribute to Pope Francis and his predecessor’s namesake.

European history shows how political messianism can destroy the souls of churches. Could that happen in the United States?

Instead of viewing those suffering from mental illness as a threat to be neutralized, police officers must fulfill the duty to serve them.

Daryl Russell Grigsby’s book, grounded in a tradition of Black social justice Catholicism, brings to life the stories of those who try to make of the world a garden.

At the volcano of Popocatépetl, Indigenous traditions and Catholicism come together for Mexican pilgrims.