Johnson was originally invited to speak on behalf of the campus pro-life group. But complaints by other students about comments she'd made on race -- as well as her being at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 -- led the campus chaplain to recommend the appearance be postponed indefinitely.

The ashes—while perhaps the most visible part of Ash Wednesday observances—aren’t the most important.

Pope Francis challenges us to reject the selfishness of fake populism, write two veterans of social justice campaigns. Community organizing can help us build a different kind of politics.

In his address to Vatican ambassadors, Pope Francis said that the pandemic “set before us a choice: either to continue on the road we have followed until now or to set out on a new path.”

The Vatican is calling for a new paradigm of care for older people after what it calls the "massacre" wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately killed people living in nursing homes.

Catholics in the United States who frequently use the expressions “culture of death” and “dictatorship of relativism” increasingly inhabit—and have helped to build—a world that these slogans describe.

Leadership lapses and the spread of erroneous information and fear about possible treatments for the disease also threaten a successful Covid-19 response in Africa.

The Book of Ruth tells an important story in the history of Israel—but also reminds us to take seriously the lives of ordinary people—villagers, immigrants, married people, widows and the poor.

Age-based, “first come, first serve” strategies appear impartial, but statistics indicate that everyone is not the same.

U.S. dioceses are crying foul over an investigative report on coronavirus relief funding they say grossly mischaracterized the Catholic Church’s finances and unrestricted cash flows, leaving the crass impression the church used the 2020 CARES Act to hoard cash.