With the arrival of summer, America asked its readers to give Pope Francis a summer reading recommendation, “beach read” or otherwise.

The United States has dithered on establishing any policy to help bring an end to a conflict now in its eighth decade.

The Supreme Court ruled that the city of Philadelphia violated the Constitution by limiting its relationship with a Catholic foster care agency over the group's refusal to certify same-sex couples as foster parents.

Juneteenth is more than a day of celebration. It is a challenge to be accountable to one another as members of a beloved community.

This historic and traditional music reflects the experience, thoughts, sorrows, joys and spirituality of our enslaved and free ancestors.

“My hope is that the church can use the immense power of its storytelling to move toward more compassion, more kindness.”

A tribute to the shot that may be saving the world.

A graduate of a Jesuit high school in conversation with his English teacher from three decades ago on Ignatian and Jesuit education.

“You can’t understand [border realities] by talking to government officials. You have to talk to the people who are working with migrants and hear about the suffering.”

Creating national norms was never the intent behind a proposal to write a new statement on the Eucharist, said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine.

A controversial proposal from the U.S. bishops’ doctrinal committee that seeks approval to begin a process of drafting a document about the Eucharist seems on track to come up for a vote.

A new documentary on the L.G.B.T.Q. ministry of James Martin, S.J., provides an engaging look at his work—and an eye-opening perspective on his opponents.

If we are not children of God, those who come from a loving Father—if we are only forms of evolved life—why does evolution create desires within us it cannot satisfy?

Bloomsday is an ideal time to find the humor that springs forth in ‘Ulysses.’

Dana Gioia’s new book is a love letter attesting to the illuminating and poetic moments of his education.

The Catholic Church in the United States is in danger of losing its relevance if its presentation of the Gospel is alien to the world in which people live.

With prayer and with life, there remains only to have courage and hope, to to feel the prayer of Jesus strongly and to keep on going.

All of us like to associate ourselves with the faith and courage of the abolitionists and civil rights activists. But white Catholics, like most white Americans, generally opposed the abolition of slavery and desegregation efforts.

“No one is safe from their attacks. Anyone they are suspicious of, anyone they think are against them, they will arrest, they will torture and some of them are even shot to death.”

Building a worker-friendly economy is a slow and difficult job. Stoking the rage and resentment of disaffected voters is much easier. Are pro-labor conservatives up to the task?