While the church continues to shut down parishes in the Rust Belt, a new wave of immigrants is contributing to an urgent demand for more pews in the South and West.

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All journalists should be humble because we are so often wrong.

The U.S. Supreme Court is bedeviled by never-ending questions about capital punishment that underscore the practice’s capriciousness and cruelty.

Being Catholic in Los Angeles means belonging to a faith family filled with need, but also with great commitment and seemingly unlimited potential.

The liturgies of Lent and Easter, like the churches themselves, are built upon the conviction that the resurrection changes everything.

In his new book about his work, Robert Caro explains why it takes so many years to research and write his books.

In many corners of the church, women are not treated with equal dignity and worth. Too often, the structures of the Catholic Church show little openness to meaningful transformation. But our church’s lack of insight, and the breakdown of our own self-monitoring systems, are curable.

Kahlo’s paintings, the vast majority of which are self-portraits, are rife with self-revelation,

On April 2, the Vatican released “Christ Lives,” the third apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis.

The pope will visit a section of Romania with a large ethnic Hungarian population—and a Marian shrine that has attracted allies of the autocratic, anti-migrant Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán.

Paul J. Griffiths’s latest book, Christian Flesh, seeks a speculative account “of human flesh in particular and Christian flesh in particular.”

The nation’s nonfiction bard, Michael Lewis, makes the case that our government is more important—and competent—than we realize.

All my nights are like papyrus, drenched in tears, a wash of disobedience staining my blank ease.

The idea to have an open-air homage to the Celtic saints of Europe was the brainchild of Philippe Abjean.

Christians are slowly returning to help rebuild northern Iraq, but many remain fearful of an ISIS resurgence and feel abandoned by the national government.

Multiple respondents said they had simply never considered going on a domestic pilgrimage.  

Jesus understands not only our bodily suffering, but also our spiritual suffering, in these feelings of abandonment. He was like us in all things, except sin. And he experienced all that we did.