A move to require clergy to report child abuse even when it is revealed during the sacrament of confession is in sharp ...

The noted historian and longtime college professor is being remembered as a man of prophetic insight who defended Church ...

Washington moved to close a dangerous loophole. Now there’s a constitutional showdown pitting religious freedoms against the ...

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee July 22 released an interim staff report alleging the FBI surveilled a Catholic priest after he declined to speak about conversations he had with a ...

St. Augustine said some 1,500 years ago that “catholic” means to be open to the truth, wherever it can be found. Yet, for many centuries the Church itself was not open to learn from nonChristian ...

It’s not just St. Maria Goretti. Across the U.S., the Catholic Church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican ...

Until the 1960s, all Roman Catholic Masses were in the traditional Latin language. But as the church modernized in that decade of change, the Vatican allowed the Mass to be celebrated in the ...

The Maronite tradition dates to the fifth century, ... The priest came from Pennsylvania a year ago to St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church in Roanoke, founded in 1916 by Lebanese immigrants, ...

The challenges for Catholicism in the modern world. Hosted by Ross Douthat Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast. transcript The challenges for Catholicism ...