Jonathan Tan, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies and associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, participated in a recent roundtable event hosted by the Asia ...

In this undated photo, G.K. Chesterton, left, receives an honorary degree from Holy Cross Father Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., then president of the University of Notre Dame (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, ...

Bronwen McShea is an American historian based in New York who has written three books on the history of Catholicism, including, most recently, Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know. Her ...

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with centuries of Catholic history and dissected for its many layers of meaning.

St. Patrick Catholic Church and other steeples dot the landscape in the Walker's Point neighborhood near the corner of West Washington Street and South 7th Street in Milwaukee on Thursday, Sept. 26, ...

Sydney Johnston grew up in a nondenominational Christian household — but now the Upper West Side millennial is a devout Catholic. “There’s just something so beautiful and transcendent about the ...

Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from 150 People, Places and Things You Never Knew Were Catholic (Our Sunday Visitor). Everyone knows John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic U.S. president. He ...

In 1999, Old St. Vincent's Church parishioner Dorothy Herbst, now deceased, had an idea. She suggested writing a history of Old St. Vincent's Church. Church members joined in the fervor to get the job ...