COMMENTARY: In an age of cultural confusion and spiritual hunger, the Church’s ancient faith, sacraments and moral clarity ...

In 2018, Vox commissioned me to write a story about medieval Catholic ideas and the radical transformation of American politics that had vaulted Donald Trump to the presidency. I thought it would be ...

Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” St. Jerome wrote in the prologue of his commentary on the book of the prophet ...

Back in the 1980s, during a holiday get-together, one of the family elders, who was known for sweeping declarations, made a sweeping declaration: “You can’t be a Republican,” she said, “and be a good ...

President Joe Biden has long claimed to be a serious Catholic, the kind who goes to Mass regularly and keeps a rich prayer and devotional life. At times he even claims to accept unpopular teachings of ...

COMMENTARY: Truth matters, means matter and human beings are never mere instruments — not even when the target is guilty and ...

When millions of European immigrants came to the United States in the 19th century only to be scorned by mainstream society, it was the Catholic Church that embraced them, taught that keeping the ...

Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...

As someone born and raised a Catholic and educated by the Jesuits, I am troubled by the role some Catholics seem to be playing in Donald Trump’s attempts to demolish the world’s oldest democracy. I am ...

The closure of 39 Catholic churches in Baltimore, effective Nov. 24, 2024, brings practical challenges and emotional impacts. Part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s “Seek the City to Come” initiative, ...

The recent closings of dozens of Catholic Churches in the Archdiocese of Baltimore for no good reason gives me tremendous pause…And so, after 72 years of being a Roman Catholic, a Black Catholic, it ...