In the face of advanced AI, we must find an alternative to the blind enthusiasm and lazy fatalism that usually characterizes American discussions about technology.
As we reflect on the end of the war in Afghanistan, the Church’s penitential practices can help us examine our consciences, individually and collectively.
Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.
Reading ‘Pacem in Terris’ today, when the U.S. has its second Catholic president, reveals how politically impotent Catholics and the papacy have become since then.
For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?
The coronation might be a mess of entangled traditions, of shame as well as glory, but it is also an opportunity for Charles to consecrate himself to service.
For filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, Pope Francis is a revolutionary, a man who calls on us to imagine a better world. But being a revolutionary comes with loneliness.
The shift of our desires to online spaces has brought about a “desirevolution,” transforming how we find love and sex, and what we expect from our erotic lives.
By targeting Msgr. Rolando José Álvarez, Daniel Ortega thought that he was ridding himself of a meddlesome priest. Instead, he may have created a martyr.
Charismatic, combative, and silver-tongued, Fr. Thomas Hagerty waged a life-long struggle for the working class, all while remaining “as Catholic as the pope.”
How should faith leaders and policymakers respond to the rise of AI? A bishop and a White House official sit down for a dialogue on algorithms and human dignity.
Men in the industrialized world seem to have lost their groove. We need a new vision of masculinity adequate to our current social and economic circumstances.
East Africa is in the midst of the worst drought in living memory. Devastation here will not be the result of some natural evil so much as our own lack of care.
Those who would follow him, Jesus tells us, must love their enemies. Those words issue a challenge for all Americans interested in redeeming democracy’s promise.
A faithful response to God’s call to evangelize is to sharpen our faces and our communities like flint—not as weapons, but as tools of creation and sustainability.
Furious protests have emerged over Macron’s pension reform, rammed through over the objection of the National Assembly. His message to protesters? Get over it.
As long as liberal leaders remain unwilling to address a corrupt economic model that privatizes profits while socializing risks, they invite authoritarian fantasies.
An exhibition celebrates Lalo Alcaraz—the author of the first Latino-themed nationally syndicated political comic strip. It’s classic Alcaraz: direct and very funny.
It is no secret that local newspapers have struggled mightily in the age of digital media. Paul Baumann explains why he continues to support his local paper in 2023.
Vatican II was a time of rising expectations for theology, for how much it could transform the Church and the world. Have those expectations been betrayed?
