February 2026

This Lent, let us learn from St. Óscar Romero about the meaning of Christian citizenship under a repressive regime.

Can any amount of Trumpian wrongdoing shake MAGA Evangelicals?

Poet Dan Chiasson’s ‘Bernie for Burlington’ functions as a triple bildungsroman of Bernie Sanders, the city of Burlington, and Chiasson himself.

A new scorecard assesses whether members of Congress support legislation that advances Catholic social teaching. Catholic Republicans do not perform well.

Bishop Erik Varden is a Catholic who desires to be catholic: to root himself in the soil of the tradition while at the same time journeying to alien lands.

For worshippers at a Chicago-area Ash Wednesday Mass, Trump's cruelty against migrants is nothing less than a spiritual crisis.

A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces viewers to Helene Schjerfbeck’s understated, dreamlike paintings.

When arguing “parental rights” cases in front of the Supreme Court, advocates use a playbook created by twentieth-century Catholics.

Joseph Sorrentino photographs the lives of migrants living at Tochan, a shelter in Mexico City.

"Scan polluted skies / for a city of wholeness, distant as hope."