The maligning of this girl’s good name has to end. And, at least in our pages, it will end.

Attempts are being made to challenge the bishops’ authority to interpret church doctrine, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer wrote in the newspaper Tagespost.

This week on “Jesuitical,” we ask Christine Emba, the author of “Rethinking Sex”: Why are so many millennial women miserable when it comes to their dating and sex lives?

A Reflection for the Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by James Martin, S.J.

Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools.

Sure, we can talk about excellence. But we shouldn’t accept as fact the idea that we can rank the worth of a piece of art. That is a fiction itself, a fundamental untruth.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” survivors explain their hopes for what healing can look like when the church and indigenous people face the truth together.

America's spring 2022 literary issue has a little bit of something for everyone—including the historian in each of us.

Marcia Pally's new book focuses on Leonard Cohen's faith, relationships and worldview through his use of Jewish and Christian imagery.

Kenneth Woodward interviews the Rev. Joseph Komonchak, the renowned scholar of the Second Vatican Council, on the council's impact yesterday and today.

A Columbia professor comes clean about his casual drug use—and thinks the rest of us should think more about harm reduction than eradication when it comes to addictive substances.

A novel, a memoir and a history of men's Catholic collegiate basketball were the three latest selections for the Catholic Book Club.

Novelist and editor Christopher Beha discusses faith, writing and great literature with Mary Grace Mangano.

Writing in honor of Dante and in conversation with him, Angela O'Donnell recognizes the enormous impact his imagination had on our worldview.

Gustave Flaubert's prose reflects a lifetime of grappling with religious and spiritual themes. He saw his Catholicism as a singular form of asceticism, allied to his vocation as a writer.

Faulkner’s Southern twist on Joycean modernism has made for popular reading in the wake of the U.S. Capitol insurrection and other spasms of red-state rage.

Katharine Hayhoe's new book is a conversational, first-person narrative that melds the social science around climate change attitudes and communication into a framework and set of stories that readers can access and relate to.

Using present tense, omniscient point of view and a William Faulkner-like stream-of-consciousness, Damon Galgut takes readers into the heads of every character in his new novel.

Writing the first full history of Black Catholic women religious in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams experienced the gamut of human emotions.

Does Christian literary expression hover as “something between a dead language and a hangover"? Have Catholic artists “ceded the arts to secular society"? In response to what might be considered a literary call to action comes a new book by Joshua Hren.