What role does religion have to play for a leader facing his darkest hours? In the midst of civil war, in the valley of despair, Abraham Lincoln grappled with this question.

‘The Good Lord Bird’ runs straight to the heart of America’s most toxic contradictions.

Tolkien's fiction reminds us that power cannot be controlled; it enslaves you. To act freely is to acknowledge your limits, to see the journey as a long road that includes dozens of future elections, and to fight against the temptation for power.

How both candidates and voters are spending Election Day.

Stories if you're anxious, undecided, curious and more. And, if you haven’t already, go vote!

Is there anything in St. Ignatius' spiritual practices that can offer to help us make it through the aftermath of the election? Yes.

Peter G. Martin remembers his father’s role in securing the right to vote for Black citizens in Mississippi—and writes that the struggle to count all ballots is not over.

During my first half-decade as a priest, I buried a total of three people. In the last two years here in Belize, that number is well over a hundred—and it has reminded me of love’s eternalness.

All Souls is not just a remembrance of those we have lost, whether to death or to time. All Souls is a remembrance that beyond this world, there is more to come.

Without “disturbing” images, abortion remains an abstract concept, writes Father Jim Hewes. We need to see the reality of what is done to the most vulnerable lives in our society.