John le Carré, who died earlier in December, was a wildly popular spy novelist—and one of the English world’s finest fiction writers of the last half-century.

A Reflection for the Third Wednesday of Advent

With no small bit of swagger, we present to you: Catholics who were Time’s Person of the Year.

A Reflection for the Second Thursday of Advent

Scientific advances have allowed enormous breakthroughs in overcoming infertility—but not without some vexing ethical questions.

St. John Paul II knew about the Theodore McCarrick sex abuse allegations—and promoted him anyway. Why?

There is nothing unprecedented in recent decades about close presidential elections—in fact, they’re almost always close these days—and there is also nothing new in a delay in finding out the winner.

Got election anxiety? There’s a patron saint for that.

The Catholic case for Donald J. Trump

The teaching seems cut and dry—and yet there are examples of conscientious objectors, like Dorothy Day, who abstained from voting.