A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.

An interview with Charlie Camosy on intersectional critical theory and the state of Catholic moral thinking

We feel regret when we recognize that are past behaviors were too small, too defensive, too rooted in our own selves.

The Catholic church would benefit if bishops felt more like local leaders and less like regional managers in a Rome-based nonprofit. One way to move in that direction would be to have the clergy elect their bishops.

There is no question that the process for the appointment of bishops should be updated. But the election of bishops with procedures similar to democratic elections would only exacerbate all kinds of rifts in the Catholic Church today.

How one man made us think differently about religion, violence and desire