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What if, instead of thinking about Christ’s baptism in terms of original sin, we followed St. Cyril’s lead in celebrating the breath of the Spirit?

How to write about the lives of women? In three recent books, formal inventiveness mirrors the idiosyncrasies of the very biographies they narrate

We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this installment, three readers explain why they left

An exploration of the memoirs of the British novelist yields insights into beauty, cuisine, and what makes for a lasting marriage

The twin phenomena of integralism and intransigentism, on the rise among some US Catholics, can actually be construed as ways of leaving Catholicism behind

The 1963 sports memoir of Trinidadian intellectual C.L.R. James analyzes sport as a key to politics, sociology, and indeed the whole of life

We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this installment, readers articulate reasons to remain

As the U.S. bishops attend a retreat at Mundelein Seminary outside Chicago, Pope Francis urges them to embrace genuine humility

Despite Kirstjen Nielsen’s attempts to assert the contrary, the administration’s current policies regularly place asylum seekers under detention

A civil war that had raged for more than two decades in Uganda was brought to an end through bold peacemaking and innovative inter-religious dialogue

Greg Burke brought an American way of doing business to a dysfunctional press office. But he quickly grew weary of the Vatican’s culture of caution and cover-up

The joy that derives from reading Wendell Berry’s fiction is not just a consequence of his literary craft, but of his theistically charged cosmology