“The near-universal urge to make an anxious joke about wearing pink vestments makes me wonder if our priests are really that hung up on gender.”

'Laudate Deum' does not merely restate Pope Francis's commitment to the environment. It calls us with greater urgency to change the systems feeding climate change.

In Cambodia, a local environmental group is fighting to protect the Mekong River and rainforest ecosystems from well-funded, government-backed threats.

Justine Triet’s ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ asks: What are we to do when we reach the limits of our ability to know?

Sights and sounds on the pilgrimage to Villa Guadalupe

Kevin Vallier’s new book succeeds in revealing the dangerous flaws of integralism, but he fails to explain why liberalism could enable us to be good.

In ‘Laudate Deum,’ Pope Francis gives us a vision of hope that offers the possibility of acting in the face of overwhelming loss.

Will Guatemala’s ‘corruptos’ find a way to get rid of President Bernardo Arévalo before he can clean up their mess?

Biden can still recommit to ending capital punishment at the federal level. That would show true moral and political leadership.

“Changing the culture of the Times comes across as no less difficult than modernizing operations in the Vatican.”

What poet Ishion Hutchinson recovers of West Indian World War I soldiers is the way in which their wounds, lives, and deaths persist.

Pope Francis’s new declaration tells same-sex couples that, in the Church, they are always loved and always blessed.