The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.

Gareth Gore’s “Opus” offers a compelling outsider’s take on Opus Dei, an organization more often talked about than understood.

James Chappel’s new book offers a fundamentally optimistic guide to the shifting view and experience of aging in America.

While history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme. Today’s traditionalism parallels the Jansenist crisis in early modern Catholicism.

The United States has for too long fallen short on its moral and legal duty to pursue nuclear disarmament.

Far outside the political spotlight on elite universities, community-college students across America are learning the skills of democratic participation.

The final twist in ‘Conclave’ is hardly sensationalistic: it raises real questions about how the Church accommodates people outside binaries of sex and gender.

“As Francis has magnificently shown us, a pope serves the People of God with a total self-giving, ad vitam: in sickness or in health, strong or frail, able-bodied or wheelchair-bound, clear in voice or raspy and breathless.”

Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.

Antisemitism—which is rife in the Trump administration itself—is now being used as a pretext for an authoritarian assault on universities.

In a country that’s supposed to be a model for free expression, journalism is under siege.

Who would have thought an American president would make Neville Chamberlain look good?

Trump’s election has thrown Canadians into another bout of national identity-searching and identity-asserting.

The ability to hold opposites together, to be thinking one thing and showing another, made Gene Hackman the ultimate poker player of actors.