If the pandemic and the swell of protests have shown that Americans are still capable of heeding the call of their better angels, it has also exposed the flaws and deficiencies of our political leadership.

Congress must stop passing the buck to the courts and do the work of passing a just immigration law.

As with the Obergefell decision, this ruling also affords the church an opportunity to reimagine its public witness.

Here are five ways for Catholics to deepen their commitment to working against racism.

We should not forget to mourn as the country begins to decide how to most prudently restart life.

In the absence of irrefutable evidence, the public response has fallen, as with so much else in this era of polarization, along partisan lines.

The sacrifice of those we remember this month with “our undying gratitude” will not have been in vain.

It would be a powerful outward sign of unity in the church if the pope emeritus and those who advise him sought to avoid situations in which his public comments will be inevitably misused to suggest a division that Benedict has never wanted.

There is an ominous and spreading threat to any restoration of vibrant community in many of our parishes, for one simple reason: a shortage of money.

While the doors of our churches are closed for now, the shepherds have not abandoned their flocks