How not to despair in troubling times like these? Live, take notes, and compose poems of love.

In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.

Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.

The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.

Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.

More than 5,000 children were separated from their families during the first Trump administration. What happened after they reunited?

This symposium reconsiders 'Time' magazine's landmark cover on the "death of God," sixty years later.

More than 5,000 children were separated from their families during the first Trump administration. What happened after they reunited?

Only through a life like Christ’s can such wrongs be righted, such senseless deaths set in counterpoint.

Twenty-five years later, 9/11 continues to cast a shadow on American politics. In remembering the day, we must also remember its tragic aftermath.

Twenty-five years later, 9/11 continues to cast a shadow on American politics. In remembering the day, we must also remember its tragic aftermath.

What explains Pope Leo's strange kind of star power? His smile—tranquil, sly, at once inviting and eluding interpretation—may hold the key.

Pete Hegseth and his truculent lackeys won’t be around forever—but unless change comes soon, we’ll be paying for his mistakes for years to come.

On Tuesday, the White Sox gave every fan who entered the park an “official” Sox papal mitre. The promotion was a smash success, of course.

Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.

Four eminent democratic theorists discuss Francis’s culture of encounter and its significance for democracy in the United States and around the world.

Observations about the “deep and abiding religious faith” of the men and women living among the mountain hollows and migrant camps of Appalachia.

Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

The United States has made it much easier for the merely rich to become stratospherically wealthy. It's long past time to reverse course.

Accepting the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, Pope Leo explored the relationship between political freedom and care for the vulnerable.

In the first episode of our new limited podcast series, "The City and the Cross," host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson traces the origins and flowering of Black Catholic Detroit, from ...

As the midterm elections approach, the Church must embrace more explicitly political strategies to combat Trump's war on immigrants.

With autocracy on the rise in both the United States and Europe, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.

This October saw the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation. What can the experiment teach the rest of the Church?

Some look at land and see property. Sandry Rodriguez imagines land rising up as a partner in resistance.

Political scientist and statistician Ryan Burge discusses polarization, declining institutions, and the future of religion in the United States.

With autocracy on the rise in both the United States and Europe, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.

If the Church itself does not recognize the full humanity of half its own members, how can it expect Silicon Valley and heads of state to respect its sermon on human dignity?

What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.

What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.

Raphael's art places us at the precise point where humanity and divinity converge.

Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.

Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history—he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents by orders of magnitude.

Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.