April 2026

The author and 'New York Times' columnist discussed the Catholic Church’s place in the landscape of U.S. politics and culture today.

The Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good hosted the Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton Culture and the Public Good Symposium at Notre Dame.

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

For Anton Jäger, ours is an era of political excitation absent durable organization. Pope Francis can help us envision a better way forward.

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.

In Ian Buruma’s telling, Berlin during World War II was a time of contradictions: hedonism, escapism, heroism, and compromise.

The Editors read about urban gardening, a fantasy baseball association, and the effects of Evangelical fire-and-brimstone rhetoric on children.

Seamus Heaney's imaginative reach for the transcendent made him the model of a religious poet for a secular age.

The United States' sanctions in Cuba are a kind of violence, depriving Cubans of basic health and safety.