Catholic Church

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local.

Remembering Mother Cabrini's humanitarian work for Italian immigrants.

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

Michael J. O’Loughlin speaks about his new book, Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.

How mapping Roman Catholic dioceses illustrates key concepts of religious ecologies at a continental scale.

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.

In the wake of abuse scandals, lay people, not priests, should have more power.

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

"Late Night with the Devil," a “found footage” horror film, perfectly captures the mood and style that surrounded media depictions of the occult in the 1970s.

Even if today's anti-war protestors couldn’t tell you who the Berrigan brothers were, the Catholic Left’s shadow looms large.

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.

Controversial artworks are flashpoints when artistic freedom and religious sensitivities collide.

15th century dogma connects the genocide and land dispossession of Native Americans with the enslavement and oppression of African Americans throughout history.