Renée Roden

"Francis reminded us that in order for the church to be a field hospital to a world suffering from Epstein's sickness, the church has to be bold, has to be the shepherd leaving the 99 to go search for the lost one," writes Renee Roden.

At a Philadelphia parish where Haitian Catholics worship, parishioners spoke to NCR about how their numbers had decreased recently. Newer immigrants have not been leaving their homes, not even to come to church.

Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional takes place in a convent in the Australian outback — and on an existential plane.

A book like Spiritual Criminals has the potential to offer a significant contribution to U.S. Catholics' understanding of our history and provide inspiration for political activism today. 

Meier spent years arguing that faith and scientific research could enliven biblical scholarship about the life of Jesus.

Spiritual seekers using the social platform TikTok find camaraderie online as they sort through the messy entanglements of faith and systems of oppression.

The Catholic Diocese of Discord — where they "discuss theology, troll Protestants, play Minecraft, and pray the rosary" — may be the only U.S. Catholic community that has attracted most of its members through internet memes.

Jeannie Gaffigan collaborated with Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to host a virtual panel on Aug. 31 directed specifically at Catholic audiences. The panel, titled "Vaccines Are a Life Issue," examined the most widespread pieces of vaccine misinformation and walked the audience through responses to each.

The trajectory of Spears' career and public persona can be understood, some scholars of evangelicalism argue, through the rise and decline of the evangelical purity movement. 

There is a burgeoning conversation about racism happening at the highest levels of academia, particularly in divinity schools, theology departments and religious studies programs. Black religion scholars say their work is routinely undervalued and their advancement blocked by a bias that sees the study of Black religious experience as secondary to white theology

Shovels in hand, descendants of the Georgetown University 272, a group of enslaved persons the Jesuits sold to Louisiana plantations in 1838, are volunteering at an archaeological dig on a former plantation in Maryland.