For five years, the government and church of Nicaragua have been at odds over protests and state corruption.

After two years without it, I fear we are forgetting what is so precious about Christ’s blood and the reception of Communion in both forms.

Though the families of former interpreters for the U.S. military are being targeted by the Taliban, there is still no established pathway for bringing them to the United States on a permanent basis.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Assumption, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

A Reflection for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

A Reflection for Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

I decided that the best way to gauge reactions to the film was to gather feedback from none other than my own Filipino-American family.

Listening to, and seeing, the other are always important. Because no one is really the other. Nothing separates us, because we are the same.

The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Creighton University students who sought to be exempt from the private Catholic school’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate last year.

The resignation of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has sparked internal debate over the status and titles of former Popes. One group of canon lawyers and academics are working to draft a ruleset for this navigating papal resignations going forward.

Like cooking, teaching is an art. Give your whole heart to it and know that your students will be fed.

Until recently, “The Sandman”—Neil Gaiman’s magnum opus about the eternal being who oversees the universe of dreaming—has remained an impossible quest.

People who shut down those with different opinions have a less rich life, and make less rich art.

A new book by David I. Kertzer argues that Pope Pius XII has more responsibility for the Holocaust than previously reported. But is the charge merited?

I am drawn to things that destroy me.

From 1989: A debate about the effectiveness and appropriateness of the R.C.I.A. in the life of the Catholic Church.

From Father Andrew Greeley in 1989: The R.C.I.A. has converted the sacramental experience into an obstacle course, a series of barriers to be surmounted, a list of tests to be passed.

A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

Britney Spears recently wanted to get married in the Catholic Church. The controversy that followed shows us what we still need to learn about turning our churches into welcoming spaces.