We asked Catholic women if they supported the possibility of women deacons. Here is what they said.

by Kerry Weber May 17, 2019

Our survey of Catholic women found little opposition to the ordination of women as permanent deacons, but a survey of U.S. bishops revealed more skepticism of the idea.

President Donald Trump arrives at a rally at Resch Center Complex in Green Bay, Wis., Saturday, April 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

News Analysis, Politics & Society

How Trump is able to exploit the abortion issue, and why that’s bad for everyone

by Sam Sawyer, S.J. April 30, 2019

President Trump is leveraging the failure of the pro-choice movement to acknowledge Americans’ moral qualms about abortion.

News Analysis, Politics & Society

List: Catholic presidential candidates since J.F.K.

by Robert David Sullivan April 25, 2019

Joe Biden is joining the dozens of Catholics who have run for president since John F. Kennedy was in the White House, but only one so far has come close to winning.

Faith, News Analysis

Does Netanyahu’s latest victory signal the end of the two-state solution in Israel?

by Kevin Clarke April 11, 2019

According to Father David Neuhaus, the Israeli political leadership in recent years has “only mouthed support” for a peace process that concludes with two independent states “and now no longer does even that.”

This image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019, by Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of a black hole after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP)

News Analysis, Politics & Society

Can you find God in a black hole?

by Guy Consolmagno April 10, 2019

Thanks to the image released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium, for the first time we have direct proof that a black hole is more than a theoretical construct.

News Analysis, Politics & Society

We’re sacrificing our kids’ mental health to the college admission industrial complex

by Bill McGarvey April 4, 2019

For high school seniors, existential angst about what schools they will get into, how much aid they will receive and how much debt they will need to take on to get a degree has become a national rite of passage.

Austin Jennings, a member of the Students for Life at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., joins pro-life advocates in front of the Supreme Court during the March for Life Jan. 18, 2019. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

News Analysis, Politics & Society

House Republicans seek to force a vote on born alive abortion measure

by Kevin Clarke April 2, 2019

“Our nation is better than infanticide,” the archbishop said. “Babies born alive during the process of abortion deserve the same care and medical assistance as any other newborn.”

Looking at Women Church World, a monthly women's magazine insert in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Faith, News Analysis

Are women’s voices being silenced at the Vatican?

by Colleen Dulle March 27, 2019

Ms. Scaraffia described the spaces women have carved out for themselves to speak freely as “a hidden schism in the church, where the religious are separating themselves from the church.”

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., shakes hands with Alabama State Sen. Henry Sanders at the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., on March 19. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

News Analysis, Politics & Society

Which Democratic presidential hopefuls are talking about their faith?

by Michael J. O’Loughlin March 25, 2019

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., responded to a question about his religious views by talking about his own faith and what he sees as a distortion of Christianity among U.S. conservatives.