While there’s plenty of room for views to shift as Pope Leo’s agenda becomes clear, people are watching how the first ...

There may be a way to satisfy both sides. Two recent books analyze the role of the Catholic Church in light of modern times. One is from a Catholic author who leans right politically, the other ...

How surprising the election of the new Pope Leo XIV was, expectations of him, the role of the Pope in the modern Catholic Church, and the attitude of the late Pope Francis to Ukraine and the ...

What is it that makes a church building “sacred?” Why do we enter great churches and cathedrals and gasp with wonder while ...

the prospects for the church’s continued unity and the implications of these debates for the future of religion in the modern world. Father James Martin is one of the most famous Catholic ...