Catholic Church

In a new essay, the pope calls for intensified regulation of the "sophisticated technologies" of financial markets.

• By Jack Denton

Unlike many films about reporters, Spotlight accurately depicts the frustrations and joys of breaking a big story, from the drudgery of spreadsheets to the electric thrill of revelatory interviews.

• By Stephen Engelberg

The importance of churches across much of sub-Saharan Africa as sites of social gathering, public service provision, and ideational leadership cannot be underestimated.

• By Rachel Beatty Riedl

Many say getting arrested, and then helping those in prison, is part of the point.

• By Lauren Kirchner

What Pope Francis’ off-the-cuff comments about punching the murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonists can tell us about the long history of the Catholic Church's relationship with secularism.

• By J.R. Velasco

The most important thing about Pope Francis: He’s blowing up the Catholic Church’s bridge back to medieval pomp, purity, and authority.

• By Benjamin J. Dueholm

The Catholic Church changes its teachings all the time.

• By Daniel Luzer

Meet the hebephiles.

• By Alice Dreger