Pope Francis is giving his blessing to a new Vatican think tank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organized crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends.

This production of ‘Godspell’ is striving to be the benchmark for a possible future for theater.

A Confederate family kidnaps the film’s Black protagonist, Veronica Henley, a modern-day sociologist and New York Times bestselling author played by Janelle Monáe—and enslaves her in the “past.”

As rural America becomes more diverse, it faces many of the problems associated with big cities, writes Nathan Beacom. The urban-rural divide in our politics does not reflect reality.

Not until the Democratic Party feels the pain of losing the Catholic vote will they reconsider their commitment to attacks on religious freedom, the defense of the natural family, support for Catholic schools and other Catholic priorities.

Terry Eagleton's new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.

Thomas Berry's legacy for a rising generation of eco-theologians and ethicists is pervasive.

And Isaac, feeling wise, rebuked his father for the sacrifice

Khyati Y. Joshi's new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege."

Religion and spirituality are at the center of Anne Enright's exceptional new novel.

The Galileo story is presented as a narrative of the church denying science. But that implies that science is a single, monolithic worldview. Part history, part science fiction, the Galileo story is less a legend than a myth.

Readers of the daily email newsletter rank the issues important to them in the upcoming election.

Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was that year’s Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States.

Catholic homeschooling resources have historically offered a whitewashed, triumphalist account of history.

& you know how hard I’ve tried to not disappoint you

John D. Feerick’s memoir engages important chapters in American urban, intellectual and legal history.