Valéry's creation of Monsieur Teste personifies his own ambition to be a "witness who is pure intellect."

Can a Catholic be a Hindu? Jesuit Francis X. Clooney has sought to learn from both traditions with real devotion.

Many young Americans no longer seem to want the things religion once promised. Has this rendered religion "obsolete"?

Must Christian celibacy be reduced to misogyny or hatred of the body?

For "the other Naomi," explains Naomi Klein, algorithmic spiral and the global pandemic fueled an unnerving descent into conspiracy.

People have never stopped seeking God, transcendence, spirit, or community. They’re just not finding any of those things in church.

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso reflects on the Church's prophetic role during an era of anti-immigrant scapegoating.

Michael Lewis's urgent new book defends the ordinary work of government against plutocrats and MAGA ideologues.

Through his papacy, Pope Francis fostered creative development in the liturgy while remaining faithful to tradition.

In the final years of Francis's papacy, Robert Prevost became one of the pontiff's closest collaborators. What clues does their bond hold about Leo's pontificate?

As Leo XIV's papacy begins, conservative and progressive Catholics alike are bound to experience vindication—and disappointment.

Francis's papal teaching was dominated by a master contrast-image: between rigid spiritual elitism and Gospel humility.

Pope Francis's longstanding devotion to and trust in Mary led him to choose the Basilica of Mary Major as his final resting place.

Pope Francis thought of the Church as a polyhedron, comprising many faces that meet each other along sharp lines yet always maintain their individuality.

The first cinephile pope’s preoccupation with film has something to tell us about his worldview.