We must reject violence. But this is the least that we should do.

For U.S. Catholics, every synod is also a valuable reminder—and corrective—that it is not all about us.

A fatalistic attitude is not the proper response to climate change.

It should go without saying that there is little justification for such a callous and indifferent response to refugees at the exact moment that the United States enjoys its strongest economy in a generation.

Two trends converged in Arkansas: reinforcing a stigma about receiving public assistance and using inefficient bureaucratic procedures to drive recipients off these assistance programs.

America’s Vatican Correspondent Gerard O’Connell and America’s National Correspondent Michael O’Loughlin will be in Rome covering the 2018 Synod on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.

The nomination of Judge Kavanaugh has become a referendum on how to address allegations of sexual assault.

Pope Francis, in keeping with his predecessors, has sought every opportunity to improve relations with the Chinese government. With the news that a historic agreement is imminent, the Vatican faces a risk and an opportunity.

Knowing that the future of the church will largely be in the hands of Latinos, it is paramount that Catholic schools help form them in the faith and help them become our future leaders.

The federal bill would also require the U.S. attorney general to produce an annual report on prosecutions in federal court for crimes committed against L.G.B.T. people “that were motivated by the victim’s gender, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.”