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

Parents always think the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and their kids are the hapless passengers in the front. And parents are usually wrong, but not for the reasons they would think.

What unites Benedict and Francis is their common fidelity to God calling us to conversion.

Since 2019, Ignacio House has housed 15 “resident scholars” who study at N.Y. colleges and universities at a site in the Bronx.

In this excerpt from her new book on Leondard Cohen, Marcia Pally examines his use of Jewish and Christian biblical images in the singer-swongwriter’s lyrics.

A Reflection for Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss Cardinal Pell and his legacy, Cardinal Zen's meeting with Pope Francis, and Archbishop Gänswein's new tell-all book.

Our crisis of democracy is also a crisis of faith. A new group is making the case for politics informed by the Gospel and by Catholic social teaching.

Dr. Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, reminisces about the personal encounters and official meetings he had with Pope Benedict XVI while they were leading their respective faith communities.

A Reflection for Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Sebastian Gomes