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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Antony Clark is a professor of Chinese history at Whitworth University in Washington affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. His research revolves around China, the West, individual and religious ...