The defamation of Cardinal Toribio Ticona follows an all-too-familiar pattern, as one of Pope Francis’s appointments becomes a proxy in church culture wars

A new series occasionally distills ancient texts into soulless banalities that merely flatter and reinforce our twenty-first-century sensibilities

Senate Republicans are unlikely to oppose Trump’s latest outrage on the border wall. Preserving the separation of powers will fall to the Supreme Court

What does violence in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh have to do with WWI-era Moscow? A new book details the destructive power of anti-Semitic myths

New York State’s new Child Victims Act allows people who were sexually abused in childhood to sue public institutions. What does the law mean for the church?

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

The concept of dialectical promotion, not complementarity, can help us better understand male-female relations in the Catholic Church