Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...

Signs of crisis were everywhere: declining Mass attendance, large-scale conversations with evangelical Christian groups. The ...

Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

Many recalled his legacy as the first pope from Latin America, and the first Jesuit to reach the pinnacle of church hierarchy Some critics say he didn't always go far enough in his groundbreaking ...