For the first time since the release of Netflix's 'Reality Check, America’s Next Top Model,' Dani Evans is sharing her story.

Two people meet at a well, looking for water. One is tasked to return regularly; the other arrives in a moment of need. They ...

Molly McNett’s 'Child of These Tears' displays the difficulties of translation, the irreducibility of meaning, and the frustrating limitations of human nature and society.

What does joy mean when life contradicts it? In the Christian context, it is a "crucified joy," on that does not deny ...

We believers cannot answer our own questions, at least not to our satisfaction. But we equally cannot stop asking those questions, and that is what makes life worth living.

When William R. Burrows died last week, many a theologian and missionary remembered him as an important voice—and a valuable intellectual support for many decades—for his work in publishing and ...

Gayle Feldman’s new biography of Bennett Cerf, 'Nothing Random,' is a window into the past of American literary culture.

This Sunday’s first reading from Genesis narrates the call of Abram. God summons this great Hebrew patriarch to leave his land, family, and culture and to take up life in a land he does not know.

Pope Leo XIV again called for a stop to “the thunderous sound of bombs” in Iran and the Middle East, for the guns to “fall ...

Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who specializes in international law and conflict resolution, argues that “February 28, 2026, will forever mark the day that the United ...

“When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites…. anoint your head and wash your face, so that you may not appear to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden.” Find today’s readings here ...

It seems at times as if America is a “twilight kingdom,” in the words of T. S. Eliot, in “this valley of dying stars.” Too ...