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Church leaders have long advocated for a world political authority. Such a power may be the only path to perpetual peace.

A posthumous collection of essays from Helen Vendler illustrates to readers exactly what it means to inhabit a poem.

"The message is / there is no message; life is luck"

“Here / we are in the same building, a hive / full of elderly, God bless them, / souls.”

"There was a demand / for the miraculous things of the deep"

Alfred Tennyson’s faith was shaken as scientific discoveries redefined his world. But a crisis of faith isn’t always a conquest of it.

Allowing lay preaching in the pulpit during Sunday liturgy would model that the Church is serious about synodality.

The growing number of adult baptisms in European and the United States has caught the notice of Church leaders who are attentive to even the smallest signs of revival.

The books we keep on our shelves represent the best of language, of knowledge, and perhaps even of ourselves.

The Church is gaining credibility for speaking up for Gospel values in the public square—even when it means criticizing a president that nearly 60 percent of Catholic voters chose.

"She’s wooing, mic to mic. // She reverbs, calls back and gathers / the crowding owlish sounds / and life’s sweet red energies."

Trump's 2027 budget proposal is a scandalous document, evincing a total disregard for anyone who isn’t rich.

It’s too soon to determine whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will last. In the meantime, the Lebanese have their dead to bury.

A series of public conversations about the most fundamental questions facing us today, co-hosted with Columbia’s Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary