Faith News
Paris archbishop Michel Aupetit will be wearing a construction worker's helmet in addition to his miter.
Arts & Culture Film
On June 17, 2015, a 23-year-old white supremacist killed nine African-Americans during a Bible study at the historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
Faith Vatican Dispatch
His renunciation did not come as a total surprise given the controversy that erupted in Chile following the priest’s controversial statements after his nomination.
Arts & Culture Art
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?
Arts & Culture Film
This motley crew of high school students want to live an authentic life. They want to be known, by themselves and by others.
Faith Features
Francis may not pray in tongues, writes Austen Ivereigh, but no pope has ever identified as closely with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, nor been so keen to move it front and center of the church.
Faith Examen
The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.
Arts & Culture Ideas
The treaty’s offhand attitude toward the non-European world stirred up resentments that lingered for decades.
Politics & Society Of Many Things
Again, the bullet. Again, the agony. We are repeating the day over and over, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
Politics & Society Features
In the late 1940s, when he was a struggling writer of pulp fiction, L. Ron Hubbard said, “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”
Arts & Culture Books
A devotee of the opera, Brown eagerly gave tickets to his students, hoping to get them totally immersed in the arias he loved.
Arts & Culture Books
John Sexton’s passion and commitment are infectious, and one cannot help hoping along with him that our universities will be able to realize the great aspirations that he has for them.
Faith Dispatches
The number of U.S. parishes without resident pastors has leveled off to about 3,400, according to the latest data from CARA—but only after dioceses have closed down thousands of churches since 1990.
Arts & Culture Books
Joe Bonomo's well-written take on Roger Angell's musings on baseball.
Arts & Culture Poetry
The pain wasn’t in dying/ but in belief in you, that you required of me
Faith The Word
Taking up the proclamation of God’s reign placed the disciples in an unexpectedly rich relationship with God and the world.
Politics & Society Editorials
Religious liberty and the relationship between church and state are two issues that have long vexed the Catholic Church, particularly since the Enlightenment.
Faith Your Take
Do you have a “guilty pleasure” hymn that you love?
Faith Dispatches
At a new residential complex in North Carolina, graduate students and adults with developmental disabilities share living quarters and meet in prayer.
Politics & Society Last Take
Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.