Forgiveness must not mean perpetuating secrecy and avoiding accountability. It means owning up to the truth.

My hope that I am vaccinated is pretty shallow. But doesn’t our experience of mundane hope bring us closer to understanding our deepest hope?

As only the second Catholic president, Joe Biden can renew communication and collaboration with church leaders, writes J. Kevin Appleby. But only if mutual respect prevails.

Young people did not lose a trust we once had in the clergy; many of us never had that trust in the first place.

Guatemala’s vulnerability is natural disasters is compounded by climate change and historical inequities in land distribution—the poorest live in the most dangerous locations where many are threatened by mudslides.

As a layperson, and as a father, I cannot continue to make myself dependent on ordained men. Not for this.

After another divisive election, conciliation will be slow, difficult work, writes Bill McCormick, S.J. And some Catholic thinkers are wondering if the price for unity is too high.

A timeline of the key moments that led to the rise and fall of Theodore McCarrick

“How they could ever repair my damage, I don’t know.”

The president of the U.S. bishops said the findings mark “another tragic chapter in the church's long struggle to confront the crimes of sexual abuse by clergy.”