After a year of crisis, the U.S. bishops are still failing to respond adequately to the people they serve, writes Sam Sawyer, S.J.

President Trump is leveraging the failure of the pro-choice movement to acknowledge Americans’ moral qualms about abortion.

Pro-life advocates argue that the New York law allows the most extreme forms of abortion. Pro-choice advocates respond that late-term abortions are rare and complicated. Both sides are right.

The tragedy of the last week is that the faithful are left to read tea leaves to understand what their bishops and their pope are trying to do in the first place. The Vatican’s action, which in the past could have been interpreted and explained over time, instead provokes a crisis of faith in church leadership.

On the Feast of the Assumption and following more revelations of sexual abuse, a priest reflects on the hard work required for the church to “come to perfection.”

The way Jesus used table fellowship in the Gospels was morally transformative—but by inclusion, not by exclusion.

Some students had reservations about politicians whose pro-life commitment was too narrow.

The Gospel we heard today is a tactical trainwreck. It tells us to offer no resistance to enemies and love them instead.

Being comfortable receiving and processing information faster unfortunately does not correlate with our ability to assess that information for truth, much less for wisdom.

Whatever motivated Mr. Trump to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, it was not a consistent recognition of the dignity and sacredness of every human life.