Pope Leo XIV has been speaking forcefully and persistently against the United States’ military actions in Iran, addressing not just war in the abstract, but the specific actions of the Donald Trump administration. And now a...
What was the Avignon papacy?
Today, we view the papacy as a pastoral, not a princely role. Yet questions about boundaries between ecclesial and temporal power remain.
New from our staff
March 2026
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE
Moral code
Video games are unexpectedly full of moral decisions.
BY RILEY MACLEOD
Biased bots
The AI explosion amplifies existing biases in the church.
BY HEIDI SCHLUMPF
Our Lady of Revolutions
Mary challenges power and embodies resistance, says this theologian and writer.
AN INTERVIEW WITH KAT ARMAS
Look to the Luddites
As tech advances threaten labor justice, we might just need another Luddite movement.
BY LEVI CHECKETTS
Grounded in creation
Cultivate a spirituality rooted in wonder at creation’s abundance.
BY KATHY COFFEY
“American Catholics come from a pilgrim, immigrant church that has helped forge this great nation. We forget that to our ecclesial and national peril.”
Kevin Clarke
