The newest book by James Martin, S.J., inspires us to ask: Do you believe that Jesus can give you new life?

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan reviews Msgr. Thomas Shelley's 'John Tracy Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer,' calling it "a well-documented yet very readable biography of the 'dean' of American Catholic history."

Schools face changing realities, including geographic population shifts, questions about affordability and a generation of parents who are less likely to participate in Catholic life than their parents or grandparents were.

Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?

Nearly everything Pope Benedict ever wrote or said in public was visibly animated by a concern to encourage—and to answer—the honest existential questions that young people are brave enough to raise.

I spoke with friends who work with young people, and young people themselves, to get the hardest questions about God and religion.