Since this synod was announced in 2021, I have worked with the Seattle chancery as a synod volunteer and responded to the call for dialogue by personally talking with 100 people who were baptized and are now non-practicing.

Catholic schools have endured a whipsaw from the Covid-19 pandemic in recent years.

You may disagree with Mr. Douthat’s analysis of Catholicism, but you can’t ignore him.

I have learned more about the church than I could ever have imagined, and the synod process has come to seem even more urgent and fruitful.

Why are Latinos leaving the Catholic Church? And where are they going? In Phoenix, Grace Walk Church has welcomed those searching for a spiritual home away from the Catholic Church

In his new memoir, a noted scholar of L.G.B.T. history describes a world of extended family, Catholic schools and parish life that offered a relatively safe space for him to discover himself as a politically progressive gay man.