In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said it is “deeply disturbing and tragic” that the president has chosen to use his power as the nation’s chief executive “to promote and facilitate abortion in our country.”

The bishops’ conciliatory statements are being overshadowed by the specter of punitive cruelty toward women confronting crisis pregnancies. They must speak out again.

A Reflection for Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

The pope joined the Sri Lanakan Catholic bishops in an “appeal for peace” and to the country’s political leaders “not to ignore the cry of the poor and the needs of the people.”

“This rush to execute would be reckless in any state, but Oklahoma in particular has a horrendous track record for problematic executions.”

As a doctoral student in theology studying Islam and Christianity, I have come across portrayals of Adam that are quite different from the one many Catholics know.

“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” is touring North America, with stops planned in Portland, Indianapolis and Albuquerque, among other cities.

There are no words to describe the difference between reading about the Taliban’s merciless destruction of Afghan citizens and hearing the same stories spoken from someone who has suffered at their hands.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.