Even as the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees pleaded with countries to take in more of the 79.5 million displaced people worldwide, the Trump administration has consistently lowered the refugee cap each year.

"We are holding up the light," the sisters said, "against the sin of racism that is still alive and well in the Catholic Church today."

Trainor suggested the bishops avoid political matters because they, like many faith-based groups that offer social services, receive funds from the federal government. He described the arrangement as "almost a payoff" by the government.

"Unfortunately, what is dying in the hearts of many people, is hope," Cardinal Mario Zenari told the Vatican newspaper.

About 30,000 Catholic men and women around the world are knights or dames of the Holy Sepulchre, pledging to support the church of Jerusalem with their prayers, regular pilgrimages and financial offerings.

Pope Francis is giving his blessing to a new Vatican think tank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organized crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends.

This production of ‘Godspell’ is striving to be the benchmark for a possible future for theater.

A Confederate family kidnaps the film’s Black protagonist, Veronica Henley, a modern-day sociologist and New York Times bestselling author played by Janelle Monáe—and enslaves her in the “past.”

As rural America becomes more diverse, it faces many of the problems associated with big cities, writes Nathan Beacom. The urban-rural divide in our politics does not reflect reality.

Not until the Democratic Party feels the pain of losing the Catholic vote will they reconsider their commitment to attacks on religious freedom, the defense of the natural family, support for Catholic schools and other Catholic priorities.

Readers of the daily email newsletter rank the issues important to them in the upcoming election.

Terry Eagleton's new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.

Thomas Berry's legacy for a rising generation of eco-theologians and ethicists is pervasive.

And Isaac, feeling wise, rebuked his father for the sacrifice

Khyati Y. Joshi's new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege."

Religion and spirituality are at the center of Anne Enright's exceptional new novel.

The Galileo story is presented as a narrative of the church denying science. But that implies that science is a single, monolithic worldview. Part history, part science fiction, the Galileo story is less a legend than a myth.

John D. Feerick’s memoir engages important chapters in American urban, intellectual and legal history.

It is some comfort to recall that Catholics have already survived many difficult periods like our own.