Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist specializing in religion and politics and author of To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism.

History suggests the church is stronger than Mr. Douthat thinks.

The familiarity of the language and the story in Andrew Krivák’s "The Signal Flame" is an homage to how people, be they siblings, friends, sons and fathers, mothers and sons or sons and lovers, communicate with each other, by word or gesture.

Producer Jim Whitaker, a graduate of Georgetown University, says his Jesuit education “heavily influences my filmmaking.”

An 11th-century prayer tool comes to life for modern Christians

The extent to which I do not want housing for the poor in my own neighborhood is the extent to which I am failing to be a Christian.