In the face of precariousness and uncertainty, religious orders and lay Catholic communities model how to live in relation with both one other and God.
American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.
If the Eucharist is an encounter with the living person of Jesus Christ, then disaffiliation from the Eucharistic liturgy is defection from Jesus Christ himself.
The challenges of Eucharistic coherence and abortion require distinct responses from American bishops. Trying to address them together will only harm them both.
Too often during the pandemic, the Church encouraged us to resent the inconveniences of social distancing instead of supporting us in bearing this cross together.
With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject.
