The pontiff still believes that pulpits can be used to shift political culture. The pop star mostly hasn’t used hers.

Pope Francis’s recent draft text demands climate reparations and an immediate end to fossil fuel exploration. Why can’t the Biden administration do the same?

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

Left-leaning people of faith will never be reliable allies of the Democratic Party, nor will the party reliably offer them a comfortable home. But their fortunes are linked.

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.

Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell?

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

A former diplomat's letter alleges that Pope Francis tried to rehabilitate a cardinal who abused seminarians. But did the writer have an ulterior motive?

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.