On Chicago’s far south side in the early 1930s, as the Great Depression was hitting the many steel mill laborers in his parish, Father James Tort started...
Church history
Any Catholic with an interest in church politics probably knows about the tradition of “papal smoke” when a new pontiff is chosen. Crowds gather in Vatican...
When you think of the word “college” an 850-year-old all-male institution with an average age in the mid-70s may not be the first thing that comes to mind...
When Jesuit Father Brian Strassburger celebrates Mass at migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border, he pops open the trunk of his minivan and takes out a...
A never-married man meets a divorced woman whose ex-husband is still alive. They fall in love and want to marry in the Catholic Church. A media outlet that...
Hermits are rarely in the news. Not only are there relatively few people who seek to become hermits, but those who do embrace a solitary existence of prayer...
“You are who you are,” says Maybe Burke, a trans artist and educator. “No one can tell you who you are but you. Whoever you know yourself to be, you are right...
On a morning in 1531, a decade after the brutality of the Spanish conquest, a Nahua peasant walked through the hills near present-day Mexico City. The man’s...
Of the 7.6 percent of patients in the United States who have survived a full cardiac arrest, 40 percent of them retain some memory of experiences that seem to...
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church By Gareth Gore (Simon & Schuster, 2024) My personal...
