Furthering the vision of Cardinal Bernardin with an Integral Ethic of Solidarity

Heavy metal has the power to name the darkness in the world—the injustice, the suffering, but also the numinous.

The Synod on Synodality has the potential to be the church’s most extraordinary event since Vatican II. Will the synod's critics prevail?

'Escape to Florence' stays within the bounds of its own story: the intimate and historical particulars of dual love stories, and the rich Italian backdrop against which both are set.

Discussions around consent should become a commonplace feature of Catholic conversations about sexual ethics. They can serve especially as a corrective to the harmful use of “marital debt” rhetoric within Catholic culture.

Surely the problems facing the modern family, the Amazon, the universal church cannot be boiled down to a single headline.

Pope Francis draws inspiration, especially from psalms and legal texts, to remind humans of our shared status with creation.

St. Bakhita was able to experience service not as slavery, but as an expression of the free gift of self.

Pope Francis today called for “the immediate release” of the more than 100 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas into Gaza and, at the same time, expressed his deep concern at the “total siege” imposed by Israel on Gaza.

Brian Doyle's essays, fiction and poetry all offered powerful reflections on finding the beautiful and the divine amid life’s struggles.