Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s presence at the inauguration should prompt sober reflection about the role of faith leaders when it comes to their relationship with power.
To Americans accustomed to cashless transactions, it's difficult to convey the shock the Indian economy has suffered since Modi’s demonetization policy took effect.
Here’s what bothers me: Long before Trump came along we were entirely free to say merry Christmas to each other. Our political leaders could say it, too.
What might be more important about Trump's election is that the phenomenon seems part of a broader “populist” movement sweeping through most advanced countries.
Three journalists with long experience in Russia try to untangle Vladimir Putin's high approval ratings from Russian citizens despite his brazen self-interest.
Fond memories and beautiful places are fine, but they are not all that matters. Indeed, there is a “Catholic way of doing things” when it comes to death.
In the midst of pre-Christmas celebrating, it can be hard to convince my kids that Advent exists at all. But we have a secret weapon for making it real.
Barack Obama may not be leaving office with the successor he wanted, but he could do a service by explaining why the U.S. hasn't rescued Syria, and why it shouldn't.
It's not true that the political coalition that elected Barack Obama died on November 8. That alliance maintained its national advantage, as the popular vote shows.
Assessing blame can be useful. But it could also be paralyzing at the very moment when Trump's foes, and also some of his enablers, need to take responsibility.
Although Donald Trump's defeat is a prerequisite to national recovery, the profound damage he has done to our nation will not be wiped away if he loses.
The prospect of a Trump presidency has sent shivers up the spines of most officials in the Vatican, though Americans who work in the Curia feel differently.
Francis has made it clear he wants to renew the John Paul II Institute by developing the guidelines in "Amoris Laetitia," which traditionalists have criticized.
High-end residential towers in New York, Singapore, London, and elsewhere are just a particularly egregious example of the warping of the modern investment economy.
The number of families with children in religious education was growing at a healthy rate. The problem: many weren't engaged in any other aspect of parish life.
Never has a candidate for president challenged the legitimacy of the electoral enterprise in which he was engaged. Trump proved he does not respect democracy.
To hear cries from conservatives, you’d think emails released by WikiLeaks show Hillary Clinton’s campaign to be anti-Catholic. In truth, they show something else.
The U.S. bishops' 'Faithful Citizenship' has turned out to be irrelevant to the most pressing moral and practical questions raised by the 2016 presidential contest.
A phrase that many people in the last pontificate ridiculed as an unthinking, trendy-lefty capitulation to religious syncretism is fully back in vogue in the Church.
Journalists have been reluctant to call Donald Trump a liar, even when he lies. But the manipulative nature of his birther announcement may change things.
Despite what Donald Trump says, the country is neither a "hellhole," nor are we "going down fast." We're getting better but still have more work to do.
Thanks to Trump, Virginia—a state that voted for Republicans in every election from 1968 to 2004—finds itself on the verge of becoming reliably Democratic.
Trumpism is an ideological wasteland where anger is the only point and winning is the only objective. This GOP convention is what the wasteland looks like.
Donald Trump says things to appeal to whatever crowd he's talking to, but casting doubt on Hillary Clinton’s faith before a group of evangelicals is a new low.
Even fervently held dogma is not immune to reality. After Orlando, gun-sanity rejectionists feel the pressure as advocates of sane gun laws move off the defensive.
Reactions to the killings in Orlando etched a portrait of our national divisions and our inclination to know what we think even when we lack all of the facts.
As a student of Reinhold Niebuhr, President Obama has sought out occasions on which he could preach about the ironies and uncertainties of human action.
In the 2016 campaign, there's a profound pessimism among conservative Christians that contrasts sharply with the movement’s hopeful spirit in its Reagan Era heyday.
Many Americans (and American businessmen) think that the United States has the highest tax rates in the world. But that it isn’t even close to being true.
For Clinton and Sanders, coming together should reflect a shared commitment to taking the country in a direction very different from the one Trump is calling for.
Donald Trump’s Republican primary triumph means that this cannot be a normal election. Americans must come together across party lines to defeat him decisively.
Donald Trump has played on the fragility of our media system, which can’t get enough of him, and on a pervasive pain among those cast aside by our economy.
Beverly Cleary captures a child’s perspective in a way that is totally convincing and never condescending, and feels authentic even several decades on.
Reflecting on the two Notre Dame graduations clearly reveals that the latest rounds of the culture wars have sputtered to an end—and that we need a new way forward.
With Pope Francis lifting up what can be called social justice Christianity, clichés that religion lives on the right end of American politics might be overturned.
Recent events ratify what Trump skeptics have said all along: that he is utterly unprepared to be a serious candidate, let alone president of the United States.
