In a better world, the gang rape of Jane Doe at Cornell would not have happened, and this column would not need to be written.

Two recent histories of capitalism show its rapacious, violent appetite. How might Catholics contribute to a politics of repair?

In a better world, the gang rape of Jane Doe at Cornell would not have happened, and this column would not need to be written.

An update on Pope Leo XIV’s lung surgery from the Holy See Press Office:

Elon Musk already ravaged our government once. He’s at it again, this time at the Pentagon.

I’ll bet you thought I’m going to write about his last-ditch zoom-zoom Air Force One roundelay of rallies trying to prop up Republican losers running for House and Senate, didn’t you?

This week I marked the end of another summer by spending as much time as I could on the water.

A recording from Joyce Vance's live video

One of the first rules of election year politics has to be, you don’t want an October surprise.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called on the Trump administration to remove Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his post “immediately” over the Pentagon chief’s plan to livestream the …

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Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic P...

The pope's operation will take place early this coming week at Rome's Gemelli hospital, where the popes typically receive medical care, and he is expected to remain in recovery for a week, the Vatican...

Apparently, Trump’s DOJ thinks so.

So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.

On Friends, Enemies, and Moral Foundations Theory

The pope’s message came two days after the Pentagon set a Dec. 3 firing squad for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Cardinal Parolin called the plan “incomprehensible,” and Americans agree.

Hours after the U.S. bishops’ president called the Pentagon’s livestreamed firing squad barbaric, JD Vance said only that he wouldn’t watch. Pope Leo XIV saw this coming.

The first time I met Hannah Pingree was at a local parade in Freeport, Maine.