New regulations forbade the participation of priests in social events such as dances and horse races, and led to an upsurge in attendance at mass ...

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 To Sanctify the World (Basic, Oct.), Weigel chronicles the history and impact of the Second Vatican Council. Could you speak to why you call the Second Vatican Council the “most important event in ...

There's something beautiful and stunning about rising at 4:30 a.m. and walking through the predawn darkness to attend Simbang Gabi, a yearly nine-day Advent novena that began in the Philippines. The ...

“Ouch!” You’ll say that more than once when reading Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves. American readers familiar with O’Toole from his reviews in The New York Review of Books or his work as a ...

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 ...

The tragic tale has the resonance of a Netflix thriller, but historians say it is less a ghost story than an ugly brew of ...

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 ...

The Archdiocese of Washington launches a historic initiative to honor people enslaved by the Church in Maryland, including ...

John Guenther discusses his new book on the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, covering 352 years of history and architectural evolution.