No matter how many times you hear it described thus—jokingly or not—an annulment is not just “Catholic divorce.” Church teaching is not that the marriage in question failed, but that the marriage never existed in a sacramental sense.

Amid the somber ceremonies, perhaps today we can wave goodbye to our starchy past.

Who were some of the U.S. Catholics who were regularly in the news this past year?

John le Carré, who died earlier in December, was a wildly popular spy novelist—and one of the English world’s finest fiction writers of the last half-century.

A Reflection for the Third Wednesday of Advent

With no small bit of swagger, we present to you: Catholics who were Time’s Person of the Year.

A Reflection for the Second Thursday of Advent

Scientific advances have allowed enormous breakthroughs in overcoming infertility—but not without some vexing ethical questions.

St. John Paul II knew about the Theodore McCarrick sex abuse allegations—and promoted him anyway. Why?

There is nothing unprecedented in recent decades about close presidential elections—in fact, they’re almost always close these days—and there is also nothing new in a delay in finding out the winner.