Writing the first full history of Black Catholic women religious in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams experienced the gamut of human emotions.

Does Christian literary expression hover as “something between a dead language and a hangover"? Have Catholic artists “ceded the arts to secular society"? In response to what might be considered a literary call to action comes a new book by Joshua Hren.

Forty years after its publication, Jon Sweeney revisits ‘Blue Highways’ and its iconoclastic author.

What man has made now makes him

Most of my kind, when they come, take pleasure in blinding you

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, saying: “The catechism is not set in stone. One may also question what it says.”

But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.

A Reflection for the Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Rachel Lu

We all live in the dark, in the dust. If we are going to assail evil where we find it, what of the evil we do not see in ourselves?

“If Putin says something on Tuesday, the Russian Patriarch has to say the same thing on Wednesday but just putting the word ‘God’ into the sentence,” David Nazar, S.J., said in an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell.