Poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini believed in the importance of being yourself, which means being unrecognizable.

The Paschal Mystery is at the center of our Christian life. So why are the U.S. bishops ignoring it?

There are two difficulties with writing about Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. One is saying anything fresh about them. The other is seeing them at all.

While some Cubans succeed in beginning new lives elsewhere, others are forced to return—a process that is often psychologically, physically, and financially traumatic.

Did the Berrigan brothers try to kidnap Henry Kissinger?

Hannah Arendt saw the dangers of a political Right that cast everything as part of a false dichotomy: anti-Communist or Communist; good or evil.

W. H. Auden's poetry shines a light on the essential Christian temporality in which death is always imminent.

The Covid isolation guidelines may have changed, but many programs that proved effective at the height of the pandemic should remain in place.

We must resist the urge to think of human immigrants as natural disasters.

In Genesis, every instance of forgiveness is rewarded by consequences that could not have been foreseen or imagined.

The conflict in Gaza has been particularly cruel to pregnant women and newborns.

Molly Roden Winter’s open-marriage memoir features unsexy sex, lots of crying, and a vivid portrait of emotional pain.

… to some gossip shared by her officemate, Pauline. On the one hand, Mary doesn’t want to … more interesting lives.” Tread carefully, Pauline’s character seems to suggest: act like … and you’ll become one. On the other hand, Pauline makes office life more manageable for …