Disallowing emergency aid to one part of an affected community and allowing it for another runs contrary to long-held social policy, Catholic education advocates said.

What that community looks like these days has changed, most notably in the inability to gather to celebrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Pope Francis asked the group to ‘prepare the future’ not ‘prepare for the future.’

‘Never Have I Ever’ is a refreshing take on growing up in an immigrant family, where cultural and religious traditions are part of everyday life.

In the absence of irrefutable evidence, the public response has fallen, as with so much else in this era of polarization, along partisan lines.

Catholic leaders in several states have announced guidelines for resuming public Mass, reports Michael J. O‘Loughlin, but social-distancing practices are not going away any time soon.

Richter, born in 1932 in Dresden, is arguably the most famous living artist.

In a collection of nine essays, Jia Tolentino writes about a range of topics, including the advent of our internet culture, the modern wedding industry, megachurch evangelical Christianity, market-driven feminism and college rape culture.

The sacrifice of those we remember this month with “our undying gratitude” will not have been in vain.

Paul Mariani’s poems ask, “Does God know us only by the names our parents gave us?,” another reminder of how the human and eternal meet.

My father-in-law is coming to the end.

Victor Pickard wants to help “reinvent journalism” by working out a new economic model based on some sort of public subsidy for reporting outlets all over the country.

In the mid-20th century, several women religious were writing and publishing ambitious poetry.

Easter joy gives us the eyes to see those hints of eternity in the here and now, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?

In a letter commemorating the centenary of Pope Saint John Paul II's birth, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflects that John Paul sought to spread the message that "God's mercy is intended for every individual" and that the late pope was no "moral rigorist" that some have portrayed him as being.

In a troubled time in our nation's history, can we unite around shared commitments to freedom, human dignity and truth?

The pope also called on people “to embrace all those who are experiencing situations of precariousness, abandonment, marginalization and rejection as a result of Covid-19.”