Among those Catholics who choose to leave the church, 74 percent do so between the ages of 10 and 20. And 87 percent of them say that it is for good.

Catholics are called to act and to equip ourselves with truth-telling tools to transform the polemics of immigration into a grace-filled response to human suffering.

Pat Robertson and others appear to have abandoned the notion that political action has the ability to improve the lives of the governed.

We need to revisit the views of this 16th-century reformer on hospitality now more than ever.

In his position, others might have begun to hate the world. Instead, Thomas Merton found he could not leave it alone.

Last month, Jason Stockley, the white police officer who killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, was acquitted. How did the city of St. Louis respond?