The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court apparently seem divided over a case involving The Little Sisters of the Poor which concerns a Trump administration ruling allowing religious employer exemptions for contraceptive coverage in health plans.

Too often, our bishops respond by answering the questions that they wish people had instead of the ones they actually do have, Sam Sawyer, S.J., writes. It is a pastoral failure of communication that stems from a failure to listen.

”Are we in the sacred enterprise of accompaniment and engagement and dialogue?” the cardinal said. “When you do it, you risk criticism on both sides.”

A conversation with Father Michael Trail, a member of Chicago’s task force of ‘priest-anointers’

At Wyoming Catholic College, students study great books and the great outdoors.

U.S. Catholics hoping for a party based on Catholic social teaching might look to the example of Christian democrats in Europe.

Galileo's struggles with ignorant authorities have eerie parallels in our own age.

On April 25, Catholic leaders joined a conference call with President Trump that was supposed to be about Catholic education. The aftermath of that meeting elicited many strong responses from America’s readers.

The Cover-19 crisis has demonstrated how important it is “to give power to the supra-national institutions,” he said, suggesting that E.U. member states “take a step back in favor of the multilateral institutions and in particular the [European] Commission and the Central European Bank.”

It is unfortunate that Mr. Trump chose to politicize the call, which is his wont, but the bishops made a good tactical choice.