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Behind Francis’s clumsy metaphors about women is an intuition that the role of women in the church needs to be take more seriously

The GOP health plan did not pass the test proclaimed in the Gospel and endorsed by the pope

"The shadows of the trees / and the frost-heaved stones / over long seasons / have shaped this grazing / question, with ears / that cup the hush."

Why does the U.S. president speak with such warmth about a Russian autocrat?

The best thing Francis can do to make sure that the next pope continues his vision for the church is to increase the number of cardinal electors

Jordan Peele’s subversive ‘Get Out,’ and Raoul Peck’s riveting James Baldwin documentary

"He watches / from the edge of the hillside, where the land / turns into town. Like a dog, but not"

Readers respond to stories on what makes a university Catholic, Michael Novak's passing, transgender theology, and John Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope.

Nicholson Baker's ‘Substitute’ is an eye-opening indictment of our educational technocracy

The central figures within Fanny Howe's 'The Needle’s Eye' are those who don’t want to pass through youth

Why did Bosch tend toward the religious and Bruegel to the naturalistic? The answer lies in the history of the religious wars of the 16th century

Seven years of demagogic attacks and disingenuous promises on health care end in ruin