The Holy Spirit’s work in the world is to orient and nurture creation continually toward the God of life and beauty.

Catholic schools have endured a whipsaw from the Covid-19 pandemic in recent years.

In her feature, Eve Tushnet describes a curriculum she is creating to welcome young L.G.B.T. Catholics. The article elicited numerous responses from our readers.

All night, God peers from his gilded case, nothing to do but wait for morning

God dwells in the thick darkness

The president of the March for Life said in the group “is encouraged by the 5th Circuit’s acknowledgment of the FDA’s reckless decision to lift critical safeguards related to the administration of powerful drugs used in chemical abortion.”

Oklahoma has approved public funding for what would be the nation’s first Catholic charter school. What could be the trade-offs in terms of autonomy and religious freedom?

A Reflection for Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Alessandra Rose

An Alabama priest disgraced after abandoning his parish to travel to Italy with an 18-year-old woman described himself as “married” to her in a Valentine’s Day letter.

A Nicaraguan judge described the Jesuit university as a “center of terrorism,” accusing its administrators and educators of “betraying the trust of the Nicaraguan people” and of “transgressing against the constitutional order.”

87 is the new 60 at the Vatican.

Living under the reign of sin, they are still a necessary bulwark, nation-states to see them as God’s will for humanity is to blaspheme the one who knows no bounds.

While narrow nationalism fanned the fires of war, Father Willie Doyle, a WWI chaplain, often paid as much attention to wounded German soldiers as he did to those on his own side.

“For us, it’s like a miracle,” Msgr. Terrence Watanabe said about Maria Lanakila Catholic Church in the town of Lahaina being seemingly untouched by the fierce Maui wildfires.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

Notre Dame professor Robert Schmuhl said the Georgia indictment “reads like a who’s who of Trump loyalists—and lawyers—at the center of the alleged attempt to change the outcome of Georgia’s presidential vote count in 2020.”

Over 27 years beginning in 1947, Moira Walsh wrote over 750 movie reviews for America—each one possessed of an invincible authorial voice and informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of film history.

“She was so inspiring, but she was also so human. She’d get herself in trouble, and she knew it,” co-director Nicole Bernardi-Reis said of Sister María Rosa Leggol in an interview with America.

It may appear strange that a Catholic moral theologian (me) would interact with an atheist philosopher who has consistently rejected the sanctity of human life while demanding we respect the lives of nonhuman animals.