In "All the Kingdoms of the World¸" Kevin Vallier engages with Catholic integralists, but he opens a bigger question: Is there such a thing as a Catholic politics?

An account of “what it meant to be a Roman emperor,” Mary Beard's new book is also a sustained exploration of tradition embodied by an individual ruler.

The examen carved a space between me and the compulsion, just enough to breathe, to think and to make a deliberate choice.

What surviving cancer—for now—taught me about life.

No just law can stop solidarity at the arbitrary line of a border, nor can a just government require the church to condition the works of mercy on the immigration status of those in need.

WIthout free and fair elections because we cannot effectively address any of the issues mentioned in “Faithful Citizenship,” from protecting the unborn to creating a more just economy.

If we could see the invisible saints watching over houses, whether imagined or not

Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.

“If you are not challenged somewhere in your own moral thinking by reading [“Dignitas Infinita”], then you most likely have not read it thoroughly enough,” wrote Sam Sawyer, S.J., America’s editor in chief, in his Of Many Things column last month.

With more than one million displaced Palestinians staring famine in the face last week, it is hard to imagine that conditions could get any worse in Gaza. But they have.

Well, it isn’t the first time that Harrison Butker has missed wide right.

“It was a long time I wanted, desired, to be with them, to meet them,” Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, said of his visit to the resilient parish. “Now I had this possibility and am very happy.”

This week on "Inside the Vatican," hosts Colleen and Gerry discuss Pope Francis’ proclamation of Jubilee Year 2025 and also review a global synod meeting of 200 parish priests held outside Rome earlier this month.

The Catholic Church has communicated with its flock throughout the centuries by means of papal bulls. But what on earth is a papal bull?

A Homily for Pentecost, by Father Terrance Klein

While the Vatican never stated its objections to the Rev. Martin Lintner’s appointment, his writings on LGBTQ+ and queer issues were called into question.

'Brighton Rock' made me feel ready to become a Catholic after so many years of deliberately not being one. I, too, frequently felt lost and agnostic. The story of Rose and Pinkie—so similar, so different, both human—was like a piece I found that had been missing from my puzzle.

Lauren Handy has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison—57 months—for leading a blockade of a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. 22, 2020.

“In our days, love is on the lips of many ‘influencers’ and in the refrains of many songs,” Pope Francis said in today’s general audience on the theological virtue of charity. “We speak a lot about love, but what is love?”