Many suspect the main reason why church officials find Chapter 11 so attractive is that it helps bishops keep their secrets about abuse secret, writes attorney Timothy Hale.
Why are cardinals sequestered during papal elections? Because it took centuries for the church to develop an electoral system free from manipulations and violence — which should resonate with contemporary politics.
Americans must decide if we want to embrace the path of conversion, writes Daniel P. Horan. Only then might we be in a position to denounce the Trump-like vision of America as "not who we are."
Instead of immediate blame or praise for the results, here are five takeaways that Fr. Tom Reese believes political scientists and historians will be pondering for years in an attempt to make sense out of this election.
Listen: Sr. Joan Chittister takes us from her experience of God as a youngster alone in a church to her rejection of the all-male stereotype of a God imagined by men, to a God that cannot fit into convenient descriptions.
The following staff editorial was published four days before the general election of 1972, when Richard Nixon won his second term in a landslide. You'll notice continuity between the paper then and now.
The elections at this year's U.S. bishops' conference meeting constituted a rejection of some of the more arch-conservative candidates in favor of more centrist, or at least center-right, bishops.
