Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.

The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.

A new book on sea-level rise by Elizabeth Rush is a welcome addition to the small but growing canon on what the changing climate means for U.S. residents.

Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In "Beautiful Boy" and "Ben is Back" they try.

Entrants to this year’s contest included poems about human trafficking, the Mueller Report, priestly abuse and screen addiction.

Dental care should be a priority in any plan to reduce inequities and improve the well-being of all citizens.

These traditional, indigenous birth practices should never have been erased in the first place.

We are called to a life of humble service and radical reliance on God but not to perfection, writes Tom Catena.

Income is perhaps the unifying indicator of health care in crisis across all the margins of America—a reliable predictor of poor health outcomes from inadequate treatment for common illnesses—leading to the final measure of all: substantially lower life expectancy.

Onita Estes-Hicks has been Catholic her entire life. But her relationship with her faith was forever changed in 2004.

On the eve of Pope Francis’ visit to Romania, the Greek Catholic bishop of Bucharest, Mihai Fratila, spoke about the changes in his homeland since St. John Paul II’s visit in 1999 and the contemporary difficulties Romanians face.

In the survey conducted online in early May and just published by the British Columbia-based Angus Reid Institute, 78 percent of all Canadians (including non-Catholics) gave the church a poor grade.

James Carroll’s article gives no hint that we are all, in fact, sinners in need of salvation; he argues that the only thing lay Catholics need to be saved from is Catholicism itself.

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts has said that all members of the Catholic Church are obliged to act in accordance with local civil law on mandatory reporting of sex abuse cases.

Police in Vietnam have detained a Catholic social justice advocate for "producing, disseminating or spreading information and documents aimed at undermining" the country.

After a long investigation, the attorney general of Michigan has charged five priests with sex abuse crimes.

“Today’s repeal is a major step toward building a culture that unconditionally protects the dignity of life, and is yet more evidence that the death penalty is falling out of favor with the American public,” said Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network, in a statement released to the media.

On this episode, Gerry and Colleen parse what we now know about each of the last three popes’ awareness of McCarrick’s case.