Pregnancy centers now face a serious threat, one that distorts the First Amendment, menaces religious liberty, and broadly imperils free speech rights.
Cardinal Burke and Steve Bannon share an ominous clash-of-civilizations ideology. They fear progressive movements. Their “meeting of hearts” is nothing to celebrate.
Many American Catholics have ancestors who were the beneficiaries of the Immigration Bureau’s advocacy. Will they support the bishops who speak out today?
Since Francis stripped Burke's duties as his personal representative to the Order of Malta, what are his options for dealing with this trouble-making cardinal?
We have entered a time of authoritarian leadership that exalts the powerful and disdains the weak and vulnerable. This is the antithesis of Christianity.
The tightly controlled and highly centralized approach to the translation of liturgical texts that has reigned over the past fifteen years may be coming to an end.
Building a Catholic university is simple, argues John Garvey: a majority of its faculty must be Catholic. But executing that plan is harder, says Mark W. Roche.
In his new book, Kenneth Woodward opines on his journalistic career covering the ideas and personalities that drove not only religion, but the culture at large.
At a time when many Catholic parishes in North America are faltering, William Simon has set out to analyze ones that are thriving. How does a parish thrive?
Trump's administration appears to believe that health care, education, and housing are nothing more than commodities to be delivered by the market, or not at all.
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.
In his farewell, Barack Obama offered nothing less than a robust defense of the communitarian values that have long been central to Catholic social thought.
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.
Nothing would do more to energize social-justice movements than a broad-based coalition able to break through the impasse of abortion politics in the United States.
Losing to the “atheistic progressive agenda” might be good for the American church. Just look to that specter haunting the nightmares of U.S. conservatives: Sweden.
It is worth stopping to reflect on what Francis has described as “the very foundation of the church’s life,” now, while the Year of Mercy remains fresh in our minds.
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.
Bishop George Berkeley was one of the most interesting men of his age. Even today, his philosophical maxims are correctives to the abuses of patriotism.
Willing the good to everyone doesn't mean we ought to contrive a cheap reconciliation that ignores the danger presented by Donald Trump to our society and the world.
One of the biggest problems confronting Catholics engaged in the public square is our failure to develop a body of political thought relevant to this modern moment.
As U.S. Catholic leaders elect the latest head of its national conference, there are few signs that they are willing to embrace the pastoral priorities of the pope.
The USCCB meeting offers another opportunity to ditch a style of culture-war Catholicism that has failed to persuade even many of the faithful in the pews.
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.
Denying the good faith of those we disagree with is tempting. But demonization is often used to deflect hard issues by denying the other side has the right to speak.
Notre Dame's president talks about the election and the call to serve the common good by engaging with political institutions, even in our pluralistic society.
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.
