Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.

The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.

A classic article on the next generation of Catholics—including priests and men and women religious—from the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley.

A poem for 'Mater et Magistra'

An archive of articles by the Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray

There is a surefire cure for pride, however, and it is as simple as a reminder of some of the moments when we got things just a little wrong. Or a lot wrong.