What can strong drink contribute to human flourishing?
Alexander Walton probes the rich purposes of alcohol, according to the Bible and the witness of human history.
Opinion
What Malcolm X can teach us about Black Catholic evangelization
Dcn Tim Tilghman on how the insights of a Black Muslim can show Black Catholics a new way to display their faith in the 21st-century community.
Why a Denver priest was wrong to treat Black Catholic hymnals like garbage
Dr. M. Roger Holland II on the racist errors that caused a significantly Black parish in Colorado to lose a hallmark of African-American liturgy.
Review: Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt's 'Black and Catholic' is a tour de force in African-American sociology
Rana Irby calls the book a corrective to an academic corpus that has far too often forgotten the nation's 3 million U.S. Black Catholics.
White Christians' fear of Black people is dangerous. A notable Catholic fueled the hysteria.
Alessandra Harris on the persistent racist ideas about African-American crime and how a famous professor's crusade helped enhance the hate.
U.S. Catholic leaders are succumbing to White Christian nationalism. What is the solution?
Efran Menny on the increasingly fraught experience of American Catholicism as it leans into White supremacy in an era of unchecked racial rage.
'Zootopia 2' review: A frolicking good time and a message for the moment
Samantha Smith reviews the new animated sequel to an Academy Award-winning feature centering issues of prejudice and unconscious bias.
This holiday season, we must resist Trump's world and live in love.
Dorothy Dempsey on the moral ills of the second Trump presidency and the conundrum of an America that seems to worship him despite it all.
A long way from home: Rediscovering myself during Black Catholic History Month
Fr Nnaemeka Ali, OMI on the complications of November as an African Catholic priest pressing to find himself in the life of the Church.
'Wicked: For Good' review: Crisp and timely social commentary in musical form
Nate TInner-Williams reviews the sequel to last fall's blockbuster, calling it a defiant romp that is inspiring and challenging all at once.
Just enough is not enough: A Black Catholic History Month reflection
James Conway on the contradictions of neutered Black Catholic faith and the change that must soon come in order for the movement to survive.
Despite immigration defense, U.S. Catholic bishops falter on clarity at 2025 fall assembly
Nate Tinner-Williams on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall meeting and the U.S. episcopacy's troubled sociopolitical moment.
Black Catholics, synodality, and the power of the common good
Daryl Grigsby on the enduring call for a listening—and working—Church, echoing from the final document out of the most recent Synod of Bishops.
The tabernacle of the Black body: Sacred yet neglected
Tulio Huggins on the significance of Christological presence in the human person in a climate of widespread anti-Black racism and disrespect.
'The New Yorker at 100' review: The Whitest man in town
Nate Tinner-Williams on a new film praising the darling magazine of American elites—which he says is a tone-deaf attempt to distill by deletion.
The hidden history of Black Catholic martyrs in America
Nate Tinner-Williams explores a rarely discussed facet of American Catholic holiness, linking stories of sacrifice from across what is now the United States.