"Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the painting was unveiled in Rome in 1941, during World War II, it sparked controversy. Gut

Rx: Real Reform; Mainstream Celibacy; Unforced Error

Dad’s Retirement“Getting to Work,” by Patricia Ranft (2/18), provided an informative view of the theology of work and the legacy of Catholic theology on labor. But her attempt to apply this legacy to the 21st-century United States sounded like a Paul Ryan campaign rant.What was she

The passing of Chávez unleashed an epic outpouring of grief among his supporters.

Some buildings on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., will close.

Tracking the editorial path of a magazine and nation in conflict

In Paris, beholding the wood of the cross is suddenly avant-garde.

'America' was loath to see the true character of the conflict.

I arrived in Rome in the rain, grateful for the end of a long, bumpy flight. Though tempted to kiss the ground, mimicking Blessed John Paul II’s customary arrival gesture, I opted not to; in my case, rather than an act of pious humility, it would have been an act of desperate relief. My fellow

For the single women in New Delhi’s Chin community, harassment is part of daily life.

The grants are a "distinctively Catholic contribution" in promoting comprehensive reform.

Excerpts from America's editorials on Vietnam from between 1954 and 1974.

The oft-byzantine particulars of religious practice can be almost impossible to communicate effectively.

A quiet corner where perhaps we were better educated than we were in our classroom

Kissing the cross,O precious cross,it blisters the lipslike the hot coalheld to Isaiah.O holy cross,there is a body on itwith a deep woundthe wound dealt by the worldto the hopes of God.O beautiful Godunrecognizablewho could not let us bein our blind man’s bluffour cruel humorsO spent fleshtha

As the Roman Catholic Church begins, at this writing, a conclave to elect a new pope, Catholics in the United States tend to view the scandal over sexual abuse by members of the clergy as the most important problem facing their church today. According to a nationwide survey conducted by the Pew Rese

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine will meet with the nation’s theological societies on March 16 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. • Three Republican House members on March 5 introduced a bill to protect the conscience rights of health care workers and e

Reading Kill Anything That Moves was a disturbing and emotional experience for me I found myself tearing up gagging at times as I turned the pages The book released ghosts long buried in my psyche stirring memories of anger and bitterness anger at arrogant policymakers bitterness at a seeming

Garry Wills views the priesthood as a zero-sum game: either reject it or accept it uncritically.

Paul Mariani S J has given us a first-rate product here All scholars of modern Chinese Christian history are in his debt as are all scholars of church history in any part of the world Mariani rsquo s strategy is simple To tell the story of the Communist attempt to subdue the recalcitrant Cath