In the absence of irrefutable evidence, the public response has fallen, as with so much else in this era of polarization, along partisan lines.

The sacrifice of those we remember this month with “our undying gratitude” will not have been in vain.

It would be a powerful outward sign of unity in the church if the pope emeritus and those who advise him sought to avoid situations in which his public comments will be inevitably misused to suggest a division that Benedict has never wanted.

There is an ominous and spreading threat to any restoration of vibrant community in many of our parishes, for one simple reason: a shortage of money.

While the doors of our churches are closed for now, the shepherds have not abandoned their flocks

The coronavirus pandemic is a shared experience for all inhabitants of the world, but it is not the same experience for all.

No country can be safe from the coronavirus as long as any nation is unable to resist it with all the resources it can muster or all the resources that, in mercy, can be shared with it.

Like many other New Yorkers and America readers, we suffered a great loss on Sunday, March 29, with the death of Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., editor in chief of America from 1975 to 1984.

It is a catastrophic failure of imagination and moral responsibility to act as if we are unable to learn what we need to know to make a better decision.

On Holy Saturday, thousands of catechumens and candidates in the United States will join the Catholic Church.