One of the more demanding and absorbing conversations I have been part of was a recent discussion of polarization in the American Catholic Church.

Pope Francis’ penchant for cold-calling Catholics has become a well-known sign of his warmth, candor and attention to individuals. And although not everyone can expect to receive a personal phone call from the pope it does not hurt to be prepared. So we asked a few members of the fai

Monks must be committed to a balanced, disciplined life of worship and life.

Francis defends Serra against charges that he was cruel to native peoples.

The New Monastics seek a catholicism more universal than what the Catholic Church normally practices.

It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am 10 years old and visiting relatives in the midwest. We head to church, pile into a pew, sit, stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass. I happen to look up from my missalette just as two girls who are about my age walk up the aisle; they are wea