Sarah Mullally will begin the role early next year and will be the first female church leader since women were allowed to ...

According to legend, Joseph of Arimathea brought the chalice used at the Last Supper when he came to England in 63 A.D., about 30 years after the Crucifixion. That chalice set the stage for the ...

Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the ...

’Prisoners” is the word New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently used to describe the Second Vatican Council, an assembly that 60 years ago brought thousands of bishops from around the world to ...

Twelve Churches is a survey of Christian attitudes toward various topics — beauty, power, and money — as they were expressed ...

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 ...