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Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.

At Trump's Rededicate 250 event, religious leaders insisted that America was founded as a Christian nation. The claim doesn't withstand historical scrutiny.

This October saw the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation. What can the experiment teach the rest of the Church?

"Then a perfect starfish, color of fire, / star fallen from the sky into this bay / unshattered, beached"

Letter writers discuss the historical Mary and reflect on the relationship between art and artificial intelligence.

"You have a music’s meaning, / here and gone, gone / but here."

Michael Pollan's new book follows the race to uncover the nature of consciousness. He finds many leading scientists dabbling with psychedelics.

"Step away a while, and walk // in silence, slowly, round the parkland lake; / there are bulrushes at water’s edge, their ancient / presences and generations"

"our neighbor declares it  black cherry  arbitrarily seeded / by a random bird though our two young children insist  'on purpose' / insist  'god'  and  'goldfinch'  wrought this perfect spot"

Can a theology of mourning keep Christians facing the decline of "the Christian West" from living in the past?

What does Christian love have to do with the austere, endless cool of a green crystal? More than you might first think.

In the short stories of Louise Erdrich's 'Python's Kiss,' our expectations are constantly upended—but we always remain in the hands of an expert storyteller.

With autocracy on the rise, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.

Accumulating wealth is now the way many people seek to belong—to "buy" their place in the world. But an extrinsic source of belonging will always be fragile.

The Vatican Bank's new investment guidelines may only reinforce the perception that the Church cares more about bioethics than any other moral issues.