Religion

Article

Where Have You Been, Bishop?

A bishop’s letter shows how out of touch some leaders are about the vocations crisis

By Peter Steinfels

August 1, 2017

Bishops

Web Exclusive

Priesthood

Article

When Religion Is Prophetic

American nuns make clear that faith is something more than a cog in the status quo’s political machine.

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

July 31, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Health Care

Domestic Affairs

Article

Letter from Rome

The last absolute monarchy in the West is crumbling, and maybe that's a good thing

By Robert Mickens

July 31, 2017

Letter from Rome

Pope Francis

Bishops

Article

A Forceful Essay Hits a Nerve

Spadaro and Figueroa identify pathologies in U.S. conservative Catholicism that need to be cured

By Anthony Annett

July 28, 2017

Article

Slaves Are Catching Our Shrimp

The Rohingyas are caught between the alternatives of enslavement, annihilation, and impossible-looking escape over the water. Will we take any action?

By Sarah Ruden

July 27, 2017

Foreign Affairs

Article

The Religious Right & Wrong

There’s a legitimate critique to be made of conservative U.S. Catholics, but on that score the Spadaro-Figueroa essay misses the mark

By The Editors

July 25, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Contraception mandate

Abortion

Article

Woe to the Texas Attorney General!

Bishop Seitz stirs the pot for undocumented workers

By John Gehring

July 24, 2017

Immigration

Bishops

Domestic Affairs

Article

Letter from Rome: A Talkative & Disgruntled Cardinal

Gerhard Ludwig Müller is not going away quietly

By Robert Mickens

July 24, 2017

Article

Welcoming Debate on ‘Militant’ Media

Bearing witness, or peddling claims antithetical to Catholic teaching?

By Paul Moses

July 21, 2017

Media

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Article

Why Should We Read Spadaro on ‘Catholic Integralism’?

Giving voice to how non-American Catholics see the U.S. situation

By Massimo Faggioli

July 18, 2017

Pope Francis

Pope Benedict XVI

U.S. Catholicism

Article

His Bleak Materials

Characters in the fiction of J. F. Powers reveal the limitations and consolations of belief, and his work affirms his faith even as it challenges it

By Jeffrey Meyers

July 18, 2017

Article

Letter from Rome

Critics complain that Francis is acting like a dictator and his pontificate is in crisis. They wonder if it’s now time for him to take a vacation

By Robert Mickens

July 17, 2017

Article

The Democrats’ Religion Problem

A survey shows the sharp contrast between how Republicans and Democrats treat religion

By Paul Moses

July 13, 2017

Barack Obama

Domestic Affairs

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Updated: The Best for Charlie

Does Charlie Gard's treatment offers hope of benefit that is proportionate to the suffering Charlie is experiencing?

By Lisa Fullam

July 12, 2017

Ethics

End-of-life Issues

Article

The Most Catholic of Catholic Families

Poet Patricia Lockwood considers the perils of having a Catholic priest for a dad

By Katie Daniels

July 11, 2017

Books

Priesthood

Article

Letter from Rome

The pope has run out of patience with the obstructionists

By Robert Mickens

July 10, 2017

Letter from Rome

Bishops

Web Exclusive

Feature

Prophet of Harlem

Besides Claude McKay’s status as a canonical poet of the Harlem Renaissance, there’s another side of him that rarely comes into public view

By Griffin Oleynick

July 7, 2017

Article

Letter from Rome

Will Cardinal Pell's exit spell disaster for Francis's financial reforms?

By Robert Mickens

July 3, 2017

Article

Pathos, Bathos, and Euthanasia

The dangers of not thinking critically about a complicated moral argument

By Gilbert Meilaender

June 30, 2017

Article

What the European Academy of Religion Says about Religion

... and what it might also say about the future of Europe

By Massimo Faggioli

June 28, 2017

Article

The Republicans’ Scandalous Health-Care Bill

A worldview that puts profits before people and rich donors before human decency

By John Gehring

June 27, 2017

Article

Another U.S. Diocese Adopts the ‘Restored Order’

Rather than striving to structure programs that will lead to confirmation, catechetical efforts should lead toward Eucharistic participation

By Rita Ferrone

June 27, 2017

Theology

Web Exclusive

Article

‘Still She Is a Wonderful Girl’

I’d come to India in 1981. Was my mother-in-law still waiting for me to become a Hindu?

By Jo McGowan

June 26, 2017

Columnists

Spirituality

Article

Letter from Rome: How Francis Promotes Outsiders

Pope Francis continues his habit of rehabilitating men once on the outs with authorities in Rome

By Robert Mickens

June 26, 2017

Article

Islamophobia & the Catholic Media

Where a Crusades-like strain of the faith is finding a platform

By Paul Moses

June 22, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Muslim-Christian Relations

Pope Francis

Pope John Paul II

Media

Article

Extremists, ‘X-Men,’ and an Ex-Governor

Jakarta’s stormy 2017 competition for governor has been a political season like no other

By David Pinault

June 21, 2017

Muslim-Christian Relations

Foreign Affairs

Article

The Other Guy

There is a certain malaise in the Catholic Church when it comes to the Holy Spirit. We do not quite know what to say.

By Jerry Ryan

June 21, 2017

Spirituality

Theology

Article

Solidarity or Silence?

Despite making religious liberty its signature issue, the USCCB never condemned the threats and insults to American Muslims that echoed at Trump’s rallies

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

June 20, 2017

Article

Letter from Rome

The appointment of a new bishop for Milan is huge

By Robert Mickens

June 19, 2017

Letter from Rome

Bishops

Pope Francis

Article

The Ignatian Option

Fr. James Martin, SJ, could be the anti-Dreher—and not merely on the topic of sex and sexuality

By David Cloutier

June 15, 2017

Social Justice

Secularism and Modernity

Spirituality

Books

Sexuality

Article

Why Aren’t U.S. Bishops More Vocal on Climate?

Contrast the Vatican's urgency on climate change to the weak public statements of American bishops

By Paul Moses

June 15, 2017

Feature

Hallowing the Gaps

God’s ineffability demands a creative use of language

By Robert M. Pennoyer II

June 14, 2017

Spirituality

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Cardinal Virtues

Let’s retire talk about “peripheries”; what’s most interesting about the newest cardinal-designates is their character

By Rita Ferrone

June 13, 2017

Article

Letter from Rome: Toward Christian Unity

Why Catholics shouldn't wait on theology built in a lab to pursue Christian unity

By Robert Mickens

June 12, 2017

Pope Francis

Ecumenism

Pope Benedict XVI

Article

How Are New Ecclesial Movements Changing the Church?

The possibility of incardination within priestly fraternities could signal a fundamental shift

By Massimo Faggioli

June 8, 2017

Vatican II

Pope Francis

Theology

Article

Can this Parish Be Saved?

A New Jersey church fighting to remain open sees a potential ally in Newark’s new archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Tobin

By Paul Moses

June 6, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Bishops

Web Exclusive

Article

Can Faith Leaders Get Through to John Kelly?

More than sixty Catholic university presidents want clarification on the DHS’s deportation policy

By John Gehring

June 5, 2017

Article

‘This Economy Kills’

The economic ideology favored by people like Arthur Brooks is utterly incompatible with Catholic social teaching; it is a rock of shipwreck.

By Anthony Annett

June 5, 2017

Article

Letter from Rome

The Vatican returns to celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi on the actual day of the solemnity

By Robert Mickens

June 5, 2017

Letter from Rome

Pope Francis

Pope John Paul II

Feature

The War against Just War

Few ideas have struck me as more wrong-headed than the belief that an essential step in converting people to nonviolence is the renunciation of just-war theory

By Peter Steinfels

June 5, 2017

War and Peace

Ethics

Social Justice