Young Catholics are no longer knocking at the door of our churches, so we must leave the church and go in search of our brothers and sisters.

Pope Francis encouraged all participants to speak freely: "Let no one say, 'This cannot be said.'" And they did. Conversation was open, lively, and sometimes contentious.

In the fall of 2013, gentrification arrived in my working-class North Oakland neighborhood. The rent ticked up month after month. Then one day, the landlord called to notify us he was putting the house on the market. Because of an influx of highly paid tech workers into the Bay Area, the house liste

Ron Murphy, S. J., a Georgetown University German professor, was returning from the Catholic University of America, where Pope Francis had celebrated the canonization of St. Junípero Serra, when a woman approached him. “Father, Father,” she exclaimed, “this pope is wonderful. This

When God created us as male and female, it was a more mysterious revelation than we’re usually led to recognize.

A Cuban-American reflects on the pope’s journey to ‘nuestra America’.

“How are LGBT people supposed to feel welcome in the Catholic Church when church officials will not allow them to speak?” asked Francis DeBernardo, executive director at New Ways Ministry, one of the organizers of the workshop.

It will probably come as no surprise that this morning rsquo s Supreme Court decision was not exactly welcomed by representatives of the U S bishops rsquo conference Its president Archbishop Joseph Kurtz described the Obergefell v Hodges decision as a ldquo tragic error rdquo and other reactio

There is contention on whether or this is good news or bad news for the church.

A roundup of expert analysis