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Perspective

Sacred Intersections and Civil Disobedience with Intersex Priest Sally Gross

December 11, 2025M. Wolff

Lessons from the life and activism of an intersex Catholic priest

Feature

The Catholic Worker's Radical Vision

October 7, 2025Diana Kruzman

Keeping a century-old movement alive, and renewed for today's problems, in the fight for social justice

Excerpt

Inside a Black Catholic Parish

September 4, 2025Tia Noelle Pratt

An excerpt from “Black and Catholic: Racism, Religion and Identity”

Perspective

The Death and Life of Ivan Illich

August 5, 2025A.W. Strouse

A pilgrimage to the renegade Catholic priest’s grave to find inspiration on how to resist fascists today

Review

Abuelita Ecologies

June 10, 2025Catherine L. Newell

A review of “Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholicism”

Conversation

Greg Bourke, Gay Catholic Activist, on Why It’s More Important to Stay and Fight

May 7, 2025Jerry Portwood

“If everybody just walks away, then the bullies are gonna win, the injustice is gonna remain, and nothing’s gonna...

Feature

Against War: The Mysterious Death of Student Protestor, Timothy MacCarry

February 5, 2025David Griffith

An anti-war student’s strange death decades ago and how it resonates on college campuses today

Feature

Priest Migration to Save Italy’s Catholic Churches

November 11, 2024Carmela Guaglianone

Italian bishops are hiring priests from Africa, South America, and elsewhere to address a priest shortage. But the migrant...

Feature

The Coquette Catholic Trend

September 5, 2024Lauren Horn Griffin, Nicole Phillips

What can this online aesthetic that rejects the tradwife trend for another “trad” expression of femininity tell us about...

Perspective

On the Banality of Evil in Catholic Horrors Films

June 11, 2024Matthew J. Cressler

“Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Zone of Interest” contain important lessons about atrocities committed by Catholics

Feature

Rejecting the Pill: Catholic Women Reinterpreting Feminism

October 4, 2023Katherine Dugan

A movement of Catholics who rebuff contraception and see themselves as the true feminists

Perspective

I Want to Be Haunted by the Ghost

September 6, 2023Jack Lee Downey

An obituary for Sinéad O’Connor

Feature

Catholic Fascists in the NYPD, 1939-1940

September 6, 2023Klaus Yoder

The relationship between the police, rightwing militias, and religion goes back decades and has lessons for today

Column

Not So Sorry: What Makes an Apology Worthwhile?

September 6, 2023Kaya Oakes

Do apologies for clergy abuse offered by the Catholic church and Southern Baptist Convention do anything to instill trust?

Feature

In the Amazon, Religious Women Lead the Way

March 7, 2023Pilar Timpane

A Brazilian Catholic nun advocates for women and the environment -- and risks her life to protect the planet

Column

Not So Sorry: Whose Sin Is It Anyway? Catholics, Abortion, and What Comes Next

July 26, 2022Kaya Oakes

Should Americans forgive the Catholic church for its role in ending Roe?

Series

Catholic Gothic Horror and the Monsters in Our Midst

June 14, 2022Kathleen Holscher

The final installment in our three-part series comparing Catholic horror films and novels to actual horrors committed by the...

Perspective

What Poland’s Anti-Abortion Laws Foretell about the United States

June 14, 2022Anna Piela, Joanna Krotofil

Ukrainian women fleeing into Poland face restrictive abortion laws that mirror what could happen in America

Series

Exorcists, Abusers, and When Catholic History is Horror

May 10, 2022Matthew J. Cressler

Part two of a three-part series comparing Catholic horror films and novels to actual horrors committed by the Catholic...

Review

Saint Maud and the Terror of God’s Presence

April 7, 2022Christina Pasqua

A review of the horror film Saint Maud and the movie's ideas about religion, gender, and mental health

Series

Catholic Monstrosities, Priests, and Supernatural Dread

April 7, 2022Jack Lee Downey

Part one of a three-part series comparing Catholic horror films and literature to actual horrors committed by the Catholic...

Feature

Religious Sisters Respond

March 7, 2022Renée Darline Roden

What popular media misses about religious sisters' experiences and why women continue to join Catholic religious orders

Column

Not So Sorry: The Pope, Pets, and Childless Couples

March 7, 2022Kaya Oakes

Do childless people owe the pope forgiveness for calling them selfish?

From the Archive

From the Archive: On Forgiveness, Clergy Abuse, and the Need for New Understandings

February 3, 2022Kaya Oakes

In anticipation of Oakes’ column “Not So Sorry” debuting next month, we are revisiting her award-winning article from 2020...

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Sacred Intersections and Civil Disobedience with Intersex Priest Sally Gross

The Catholic Worker's Radical Vision

Inside a Black Catholic Parish

The Death and Life of Ivan Illich

Abuelita Ecologies

Greg Bourke, Gay Catholic Activist, on Why It’s More Important to Stay and Fight

Against War: The Mysterious Death of Student Protestor, Timothy MacCarry

Priest Migration to Save Italy’s Catholic Churches

The Coquette Catholic Trend

On the Banality of Evil in Catholic Horrors Films

Rejecting the Pill: Catholic Women Reinterpreting Feminism

I Want to Be Haunted by the Ghost

Catholic Fascists in the NYPD, 1939-1940

Not So Sorry: What Makes an Apology Worthwhile?

In the Amazon, Religious Women Lead the Way

Not So Sorry: Whose Sin Is It Anyway? Catholics, Abortion, and What Comes Next

Catholic Gothic Horror and the Monsters in Our Midst

What Poland’s Anti-Abortion Laws Foretell about the United States

Exorcists, Abusers, and When Catholic History is Horror

Saint Maud and the Terror of God’s Presence

Catholic Monstrosities, Priests, and Supernatural Dread

Religious Sisters Respond

Not So Sorry: The Pope, Pets, and Childless Couples

From the Archive: On Forgiveness, Clergy Abuse, and the Need for New Understandings

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