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.

Got election anxiety? There’s a patron saint for that.

The Catholic case for Donald J. Trump

The teaching seems cut and dry—and yet there are examples of conscientious objectors, like Dorothy Day, who abstained from voting.

An exciting new version of Psalm 137 has been discovered, and it gives comfort to a long-suffering people.

Twitter users swapped "pope memes" last week using digitally altered images of Pope Francis celebrating the Eucharist. Was it harmless fun or sacrilege?

Charlie Kaufman's debut novel is not for the faint of heart. But it rewards the effort to read through a story about self-perception and the internal monologues that rattle through all of our heads.