Darkness and light are but one, the psalmist tells us. Our lives are filled with both. Sugar and skulls. Flowers and dust. Love and loss. You cannot embrace one without allowing the other.

As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.

In ‘Wings of Desire,’ Damiel is tired of pretense, tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit.

The natural world is Wendell Berry’s primary teacher: its rhythms, its largesse, its mysteries.

Listeners of Jesuitical offer their own answer to the podcast's recurring question.

Both the church and the nation will steadily shrink without newcomers from beyond our national borders. But there are big differences in how immigration plays out in different parts of the U.S.

A Catholic priest who disappeared from his family home was found dead in a shallow grave in southeastern Kenya a week after he was reported missing.

Britain and the EU have pledged to keep the border open after Brexit, but they have struggled to find a solution that is acceptable to both sides.

In rural America, shrinking parishes have to share priests. That’s nothing to fear.