The Conversation

Torn between "the American dream" and fears of an ungovernable "melting pot," Americans have always viewed immigrants ambivalently.

In the 20th century, an engineer from Philadelphia encouraged others to create their own Mary gardens and established a company that sold seeds with Marian plant names.

Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.

Commentary: The Irish government recently declared a national holiday for St. Brigid. A medieval historian explains her fascinating life and history.

Perspective: Touch is central to caring for the dying. Human dignity is at stake when the Supreme Court hears death row inmate John Henry Ramirez's plea that his pastor be allowed to lay hands on him as he is executed.

Every pope for the past 50 years — except John Paul I, who died after a month in office — has spoken and written about environmental issues.

For us climate scientists the COVID-19 pandemic has brought some new and unexpected insights. Here are three things we have learned.