It is Christ who sets the table and draws up the guest list. Who are we, serving at that table, to amend his invitation?

The four churchwomen chose to stay and to suffer, as St. Romero had once said, “the same fate as the poor.”

Noted primarily for his work on religious liberty, John Courtney Murray, S.J., provided much of the basis for theological and political reflection on the relationship between church and state on...

How a tiny U.S. Post Office in Ossining, N.Y., became the site of a caper for the ages.

America mourns the loss of Drew Christiansen, S.J., a noted scholar and former editor in chief of the magazine.

When J.F.K. visited Ireland in 1963, both Ireland and Irish-Americans celebrated the occasion. The visit of President Joe Biden this week inspired similar feelings—but in a situation far different.

How do you carry on when a majority of your own church, clerical and lay, denounces you?

Pope Francis mentioned Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., at the close of his Mass in Ulaanbaatar on Sunday. Might this mean the great priest-paleontologist is finally being recognized by the Vatican for his...

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

Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to...

One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.

Last week saw the release of yet another poll suggesting that a majority of U.S. Catholics do indeed hold pro-choice views on abortion.

One year into a three-year global synodal process, we should not expect hot-button issues and their promoters to vanish, nor for public disagreements among Catholics to cease.

On Aug. 9, Father Joseph was taken into eternity in the Year of St. Joseph.

Much of the story of the Second Vatican Council was first told to Americans by Xavier Rynne in The New Yorker. But who was Rynne?

The newest book by James Martin, S.J., inspires us to ask: Do you believe that Jesus can give you new life?

Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Gaillardetz, who died on Tuesday, as a perceptive theologian, mining in his talks, articles and books the ecclesiology of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ vision...

In a surprise move, Pope Francis has appointed the Argentine theologian and archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández as the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Writing the first full history of Black Catholic women religious in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams experienced the gamut of human emotions.

Andre Dubus wrote short stories and novellas about the brutal truths and miraculous moments in life—and more than a few dealt with the joys and sorrows of fatherhood.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan reviews Msgr. Thomas Shelley's 'John Tracy Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer,' calling it "a well-documented yet very readable biography of the 'dean' of American...

As Dorothy Day's cause for canonization moves forward, her writings continue to offer a prophetic Christian witness to a complacent world.

As Dorothy Day's cause for canonization moves from the local phase to Rome, Colleen Dulle shares her insider's perspective.

John Irving writes characters who, like Flannery O’Connor’s American South, seem somehow God-haunted.

Saint Augustine still captures our imaginations 16 centuries after he lived. What is it about this theologian, philosopher, preacher and memoirist that makes him such a perennial favorite?

We experience now a church where the laity matter—where, for example, a New York Times columnist without any church title can have a voice.

From 1846 to 1848, in the worst years of the potato famine in Ireland and during mass emigration to the United States, one of the toughest units of the Mexican armed forces battling the invaders from...

Reggie Foster taught generations of students in Rome, keeping Latin alive and living a colorful, inspiring life.

Jon Hassler wrote novels that examined with infinite compassion the lives of the residents of small-town Minnesota.

George Dunne, S.J., never backed down from a fight or a perceived injustice in a long career as a priest, academic and activist.

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...

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