Many U.S. bishops remain unwilling to call out Trump's authoritarianism. They would be wise to draw lessons from the Church's history with Italian Fascism.
Phil Andrew survived a school shooter’s bullet and has dedicated his life to countering violence. Now he’s running for Illinois’s ninth Congressional District seat.
A new scorecard assesses whether members of Congress support legislation that advances Catholic social teaching. Catholic Republicans do not perform well.
Bishop Erik Varden is a Catholic who desires to be catholic: to root himself in the soil of the tradition while at the same time journeying to alien lands.
“Ash Wednesday made no assumptions. It offered no promise that anything would get better. It spoke directly to the condition I recognized most readily.”
From the universalist faith that God will redeem everyone, I gained a surprising gift: the capacity to forgive my mother, the woman who murdered her, and myself.
Leo possesses the mind of a mathematician and canon lawyer. He has the makings of an effective manager—even of a sprawling organization like the Church.
Despite the hopes of Catholic traditionalists, Pope Leo has not undone Francis’s limits on the Latin Mass, but other questions about liturgy remain on the synodal table.
As the Trump administration moves the country further into fascism, the times demand an even stronger defense of the human dignity of all life—including Renee Good’s.
Leo has introduced, in his gentle style, a different way to govern the Vatican—one that is more mindful of the need to work together with all those in the hierarchy.
The fields of California's Central Valley, cultivated by migrants, shine a light on how our habits and policies fail to honor the people whose hands feed us.
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