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During the March 2013 interregnum following the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, and in the conclave itself, proponents of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., as Benedict’s successor described him...

One of the constants of the Franciscan pontificate was the favor with which he was treated by the secular English-speaking media. Alongside the tributes that international diplomacy requires, we...

Pope Francis died early Easter Monday, less than twelve hours after the last evening Masses had been offered in Roman parishes. On Easter Sunday evening, the assigned Gospel passage...

The era of Francis is over, and it is time to start the postmortems on his tenure. Throughout his time as pope, Roman Catholic critics of Francis typically prefaced...

My daughter’s life has been marked by challenges that few her age can begin to fathom. Before we welcomed her into our family, she was an infant in Ukraine...

A remarkable man has passed from the scene. The Society of Jesus got its start nearly five hundred years ago and soon grew to become the most influential (and...

I have personal memories of Pope Francis that I greatly value: a friendly and generous working relationship at the 1997 Synod on America when we were both newly appointed...

Who hangs on the center tree at the Place of the Skull? That’s the question of Good Friday, the conundrum of the cross. It’s also the scandal of Jesus’s...

The Christian faith is bathed in blood. There is no sugarcoating this. Holy Week takes us up to Golgotha. And on Golgotha is a bloody sacrifice—a human sacrifice, no...

Last week, two signs of our times passed across my desk. First, a colleague drew my attention to the forthcoming volume A Queer Lectionary: (Im)proper Readings from the Margins—Year...

In March, a team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced a new finding: ancient pollen and other botanical evidence indicating a garden had been...

Last year, the Association of American Medical Colleges warned that the United States will face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, including a shortage of between...

Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the wood of the manger anticipates the wood of the Cross: that...

Congressional proxy voting is a terrible idea. It is patently unconstitutional. It is as slippery a slope toward corruption and abuse of power as can be imagined. And even...

My wife, an immigration attorney here in Texas, held a well-attended “know your rights” session for immigrants last night. But not a soul who was at risk of deportation came...