In “Dear Franklin Jones,” Jonathan Hirsch sets out to answer some questions about his family.

Dr. Shannen Dee Williams is uncovering the previously hidden lives of African-American women religious.

How do you change the mind of someone who thinks you don’t belong in this country because of your faith?

Ross Douthat on the future of the Catholic Church

Patrick Blanchfield on the history and future gun control in the United States

This week, we talk with Guy Consolmagno, S.J.—a Jesuit brother and director of the Vatican Observatory.

What is a papal ninja and how do you become one?

One of the first questions survivors of suicide victims face is what to tell others about their loved one’s death.

“Maybe you just haven’t found the right poet.”

We live in an age of opinion writers telling us that we live in an age of [insert sweeping generalization here].