The Vatican sex abuse summit already includes some surprises

The Jesuit program’s emphasis on nutrition, health and education components is a trifecta of basic social needs that its sponsors say are essential for the nation’s future development.

Activists in Poland toppled a statue of a prominent Solidarity-era priest early Thursday amid allegations that he sexually abused minors.

Critics contend the government started breaking up immigrant families as far back as 2017 and is still doing so.

From that would come increased dialogue and synodality within the church, and greater lay participation.

A discussion on our first memories of hell, how it still impacts our lives and our culture, and why it might be easier to describe hell than heaven.

People with Down syndrome can accomplish amazing things, but the dignity of the human person is not contingent on measurable achievements.

The orchid book says to stop watering right before you think it’s enough, which doesn’t help much

In 'The Dangers of Christian Practice,' Lauren Winner shows that even our holiest religious practices create characteristic distortions.

Frank Bidart tells us he came the closest to finding himself in his own poetry—and even then, not really.

While it is clear that not everything in the Green New Deal is realistically achievable, what is less realistic still is to dismiss it out of hand in order to continue the pretense that climate change can be ignored.  

Arnold Offner's biography shows Hubert Humphrey as a serious man who sought a serious goal: the betterment of his fellow Americans, whether through persuasion or legislation.

Today more and more women religious are speaking up and demanding that the church hold abusers to account.

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Where can someone who sincerely wants to repent and atone find guidance or models for apologizing well?

Jerome Neyrey's new book displays the many ways in which Jesus was not only “like us in all things” but also definitely a person incarnated in his own culture.

In 1909, the editors relied on the telegraph to stay connected to their international network. Today, even the editor in chief can use his iPhone to file a column from a bus en route to Bethlehem.

“In the world of consumer products and for-profit corporations,” wrote Kathy Wright of Loretto, Ky., “money talks.”