The big trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.

The big trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.

A firsthand look at the new collection beneath one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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"Night after night, Colbert told the truth, made you think, made you laugh and sent you to bed slightly less alone in your concern or alarm," writes Bill Lichtenstein. "For many viewers, he became par...

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley made the statement ahead of the 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline Trump gave Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. But what can we do about it? I am a 75-year-old retired priest with impaired vision. What can I do? Not much. But still, I can do something. Quite a lo...

On immigration, power, and fearing for my family

What beats within: How AI can never be more than a machine, predicated on theft, with neither heart nor soul

"The deeds of this administration have stood in sharp contrast to the reassuring words they have offered to religious believers," writes Steven P. Millies.

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Christmas crèches have always included a prophetic purpose. This year, some churches are using their nativity scenes to call out mass deportations.

The Trump administration defends a radical inversion of Christian teaching on poverty.

Modern Catholic social teaching is now suffering the same decline as befell the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the twentieth century.

Heated political debates make for good content, but a good education requires patient deliberation and reflective free-thinking.

Reflecting on Pope Leo's recent comment in an interview, Daniel Horan suggests we look to history for the ways in which changing attitudes did eventually result in changing doctrine.

Trump is implementing a devastating, dystopian plan to make Medicare more like private insurance

In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an inhumanly hot and intolerably humid day, I arrived at Newark Airport to live in the United States. I was twenty two years o...

ICE, baptism, immigrants, and the church

The American Library Association is leading the charge for libraries. Librarians, information professionals, and everyone who loves them must tell their members of Congress to support full federal fun...

A group of about 40 people from communities close to the pope's heart will be on hand at his funeral on Saturday, the Vatican announced.