A Reflection for the Friday of the First Week of Advent: Memorial of St. Francis Xavier

As Dorothy Day's cause for canonization moves forward, her writings continue to offer a prophetic Christian witness to a complacent world.

Mary Gordon is one of America's greatest Catholic writers—just don't ask her why she stayed.

Many topics of great import were discussed at the meeting of the U.S. bishops. But they missed the mark on bingo, confession and whether cats possess prevenient grace.

In almost 20 books published over half a century, Barry Lopez always maintained a tight focus on the interconnectedness—and spiritual value—of all life, from the smallest mushroom to the largest forest.

Willie James Jennings belongs to a guild in which he never felt he belonged. How do we remake the world of theological education when it still holds up what Jennings calls "white self-sufficient masculinity" as the ideal?

With the World Series upon us, a look back at some of America's finest coverage of baseball.

When Pope Francis welcomes U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the Vatican tomorrow, it will mark the 31st meeting between a sitting pope and a sitting U.S. president.

Phil Klay is part of a new generation of authors who are putting to rest the overwrought claims about the death of modern Catholic fiction.

Is Sally Rooney the millennial generation's great Catholic writer?