Or at least trying to.

I know what you are thinking—a decadent spectacle of wealth, really, that’s what the church needs right now? But hear me out.

While Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s attendance attracted predictable outrage from her regular critics, she made the exact splash it seems she intended to make.

Many of the stories that came out of 9/11, tales of grief and rage, sin and freedom, seem relevant once again.

With her new book 'Beyond,' Catherine Wolff mixes well-written impressionistic summaries of various religious perspectives with personal anecdotes to answer the age-old question of what lies beyond the grave.

The show presents a radical, eminently Catholic conviction: that men and women in jail are not “convicts,” but human beings on the same journey of sin, mercy and redemption.