With an important election coming in 2024, white Christian nationalism is emerging as a serious threat to our democracy.

Pope Francis has announced a commission to identify new martyrs, and in its latest report, Open Doors International has identified 76 countries where Christians suffer “high and extreme levels of persecution.”

Papal infallibility is not always properly understood. Some on the right think that the magisterium can resolve every question or problem with a declaration. Those on the left often grow impatient and dispute its interventions.

It is not sufficient for contemporary Catholics simply to repeat the formulas of the past.

Two recent books by Benjamin McKean and Vincent Bevins show the violence done to developing countries in the name of economic prosperity and U.S. political hegemony.

Two new books show that Christian approaches to salvation are not as monolithic as one might think.

The work of IOTA could help move the ecumenical movement forward. IOTA plans to meet every four years, on the model of the Olympics. It could become a blessing for all the church.

Review of Ross Douthat's latest book, "To Change the Church." While the church always strives to honor what Jesus said about divorce and remarriage, it has made pastoral accommodations since its earliest days.

The Islamic Jesus draws on the presentation of Christ in the Quran to find new common ground for the People of the Book. 

In the West there are new obstacles to ecumenism.