Barbara F. Walter offers a handy guide for predicting where political instability is most likely to occur—and it is usually when that country is moving away from democracy.

“The Good Fight” is ending its run by ramping up the surrealism—and the idea that we are all living in a very real political nightmare.

Throughout 23 years of Russian confinement—he was finally released on Oct. 12, 1963—Walter turned to God in prayer in every crisis.

Americans across the political spectrum can agree that both parties have dumbed down democracy, but only the Republican Party is rapidly moving toward the idea of simply refusing to accept election losses.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

Our prayers would be immeasurably improved if we truly believed that we were indeed talking to someone.

To act like there are no open questions about the council’s relationship to the state of the church is an act of denialism and pearl-clutching.

Sister Haddad, the president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association, wonders why any fair observer should be surprised to discover that Catholic institutions would adhere to Catholic teaching on abortion and contraception.

Desire is the lack of a reference point that orients the path of life; it evokes a suffering, a lack, and at the same time a tension to reach the good that we miss.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill

Sinéad O’Connor's provocative appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' 30 years ago drew cries of outrage. But was some of her anger justified?

As good theologians, those in attendance at the council will be impelled to get to the heart of the principal problems bothering Catholics and non-Catholics alike in the modern world.

Catholics must be careful, he said, because “both the ‘progressivism’ that lines up behind the world and the ‘traditionalism’ that longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity,” the pope said.

“Tár” is about power, guilt and the always tantalizing question of whether the art can or should absolve the artist for being who she is.

Colorado baker Jack Phillips is currently fighting a ruling that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law for refusing to bake a cake to celebrate a gender transition.

A Reflection for the Optional Memorial of Saint John XXIII, by Ashley McKinless

A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Sebastian Gomes

How many of us know real-world cheaters who have just plain gotten ahead, not despite their short-cutting but because of it?