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One consequence of Trump’s order to send federal immigration enforcers to Portland is that Americans will get a better sense of the unjust ways these agents operate.

What to make of the fact that the Catholic Church received $1.4 billion from the U.S. government’s Paycheck Protection Program? It’s complicated.

Forget the ideal of scholarly objectivity. A biographer damn well better love his or her subject. And love is what these books have in spades.

This time of pandemic and mass interracial demonstrations has revealed gaping wounds in our body politic. The ancient homilist Origen can help us heal them.

We may not be Sicilian aristocrats, but there’s a bit of Don Fabrizio in all of us. This classic Italian novel makes great summer reading.

While St. Ephrem of Syria did not explicitly call for ordination of women to the diaconate, he envisioned radical equality between the sexes in ministry.

Catholics may accept evolution now, but it wasn’t always so. The bunker-mentality of nineteenth-century Neo-Scholasticism damaged Catholic theology for decades.

A debut novel tackles intergenerational trauma in a Haitian neighborhood of New York City, where complex dynamics of race, sex, and class play out.

The Trump administration insists its Migrant Protection Protocols keep asylum seekers safe. Reporting from Mexico shows otherwise.

Many films have been made about the senselessness and brutality of war. But Elem Klimov’s ‘Come and See’ deserves renewed attention for its masterful ambiguity.

Young journalists have called on media outlets to abandon evenhanded objectivity. But moral clarity is a work in progress, not a done deal.

As the pandemic and its pageant of inequality demonstrates, fantasies of possession can neither save our lives nor give them meaning.

To effectively respond to racism, bishops should be open to the Black Lives Matter movement, rather than dismissing it for its pro-LGBTQ stance.