As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal’s legal defense team is now claiming he is in steep mental and physical decline and therefore not able to stand trial.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless

Refusing to raise the cap on our national debt would not lead to reduced government spending. But it would endanger economies all over the world.

“The march has always been about an end to Roe, but it’s also about an end to abortion.”

Sister André, a Catholic convert raised in a Protestant family, was born Lucile Randon Feb. 11, 1904. She lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and through 10 pontificates.

John LaFarge, S.J., a longtime editor at America, was also one of the nation's leading advocates for racial justice beginning in the 1920s.

Jordan Peterson has gained celebrity by offering strategies for coping with modernity. But his fellow Canadian, the Jesuit Bernard Lonergan, offered strategies that were more holistic in nature and incorporated the whole community.

Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed in a blast in eastern Congo.

Mel Gibson's past history of antisemitic remarks and behavior means holding him up as a leader is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.

Our leaders spoke to their development as public persons, worthy of recognition in civil society and local democracy.