Have the “nones” consciously rejected religion, or have religious institutions failed to involve them and respond to their needs? The only way to find out is by asking.

The United States must be capable of holding to account those who abandon deliberative self-governance for a politics based on exploiting outrage and resentment.

Facebook’s business model, built on monetizing human attention while outsourcing human judgment to algorithms, is a uniquely comprehensive and dangerous abdication of responsibility.

The disagreements we have in the Catholic Church in the United States around the Eucharist are largely about discipline, not doctrine.

Any exit from Afghanistan was bound to be fraught. That does not reduce our responsibility to assess the Biden administration’s missteps.

How should the church go about updating tradition and articulating a more realistic framework?

The Catholic Church still has a trust problem, as shown by the results of a comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholics commissioned by America Media.

Forgiveness and healing can begin only after the most difficult part is addressed: confronting the past, speaking the truth, revealing the worst.

The United States has dithered on establishing any policy to help bring an end to a conflict now in its eighth decade.

Though an about-face by the Biden administration brought welcome news to advocates for refugee resettlement, the process raised concerns about the political calculus at work.