The Irish singer-songwriter has died at the age of 56, but she leaves behind a legacy of political activism.

Portraying the Dodgers game protest as one led by “religious groups” is technically correct, but it fails to communicate the threat of political violence some of the organizers openly embrace.

The French showed this week why the U.S. Congress needs to launch a commission on clergy sexual abuse of minors.

The bishops’ shameful resolution to deny communion to the president is hypocritical and out of step with Catholic public opinion.

Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.

A schism in the faith between liberals and conservatives is being exacerbated by a group of plutocrats.

On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts

A dispatch from Pope Francis’s efforts to combat climate change—and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face

Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.

Edir Macedo has a church, a bank, a TV channel, and a Moses complex. And with the election of Jair Bolsonaro, he has emerged as the country’s most controversial kingmaker.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Catholic Church has become a powerful voice for democracy. Now, it is trying to ensure a fair election.

Some Catholic leaders are using the sex abuse crisis to unseat Pope Francis.

A new report on decades of clerical abuse has exposed a secretive culture that is seemingly incapable of policing itself.

What the Met Gala said about the relationship between Catholic art and contemporary America

How birth-control leaders found allies in American religious groups

The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism.