“The Last Dance” is not documentary but hagiography. Many commentators mean this as a criticism, but here is the thing: Hagiographies are important—and compelling.

Cyrus Habib is interrupting what had been a rapid political ascent to join the Catholic Church’s largest religious order.

The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.

We’re relaunching the commenting experience at America.

Hunter Harris tells us. Also: Lady Bird is the greatest Catholic School Movie ever.

Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.

Nuns and Nones, an organization that brings these two groups—both spiritually seeking, both distinctly committed to justice—together for conversation, relationship and even shared housing.

Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.

Onita Estes-Hicks has been Catholic her entire life. But her relationship with her faith was forever changed in 2004.

Kate Bowler talks with the hosts of “Jesuitical,” Ashley McKinless, Olga Segura and Zac Davis, and explains what her cancer diagnosis taught her about American Christianity and more.