Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.

they last seconds then dissipate like apologies

Jesus called his followers to be fishers of men. We can understand this better if we consider what it takes to be a fisher of fish.

I worried his soul had been out for too long.

Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.” 

"The Laywoman Project" is a book primarily about changing concepts of women’s vocation during that rapidly moving decade.

Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.

Structural racism must be addressed as a collective, not only an individual, responsibility. A new project at Boston College tackles this challenge. Its inaugural director, Vincent Rougeau, explains.

How the influence of religion and a desire for retaliation have made the U.S. penal system exceptional in all the worst ways

Upholding the authority of the law to restrain the chief executive is a core Christian value.

Annalena Tonelli moved to Kenya in her 20s to work as a teacher. Her desire was to live among the poor as one of the poor.

Reflecting on how he could help promote racial justice and goodwill, an unemployed Minnesota father was inspired to find a way to feed those who are assisting their fellow brothers and sisters.

"The administration's efforts to effectively end asylum have been met with a massive outpouring of opposition from the public, particularly the interfaith community," said the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.

A tireless promoter of missionary work, Italian-born Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini of El Alto, Bolivia devoted his life to the people of his adopted country.

In this special update episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle unpacks what’s new in the handbook and why it took a year and a half for the Vatican to develop this document.