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The synod in Rome envisions a different Church, one in which ordinary people are heard.

Whistleblowers in the Church are prophetic and necessary. The hierarchy should treat them accordingly.

Sally Rooney’s latest novel explores the everyday messiness of contemporary life and relationships.

In the Midwestern meatpacking industry, faith organizations and unions can and should collaborate to help overcome difficult working conditions.

France’s report on clerical sexual abuse reveals a problem with institutional causes that must still be addressed.

Maggie Nelson’s latest book challenges us to embrace nuance and complexity, resisting “right” answers and straight stories.

The poetry of San Juan de la Cruz forgets the familiar, easy, and convenient, slipping into darkness and unknowing to find God.

A new book seeks to update Msgr. John A. Ryan’s vision of a moral economy for our own day and age.

We live toward death, inescapably. Yet we also live surrounded by grace, love that has the power to ground us.

Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite.

Cynthia Ozick’s latest book chronicles mid-century U.S. culture and the friction between WASP America and Jewish people.

On the emerging trend of “literary fanfic,” fictional retellings of classic literature or the lives of historical figures

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

Sarah Ruden’s new translation of the Gospels is far from straightforward.