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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis received a warm welcome on Thursday speaking to a joint meeting of the United States Congress. It is just one stop of many where the pontiff has been greeted by cheers from supporters ...

’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 ...

Charles I. Clough Millennium Professor of History Emeritus James O’Toole, a scholar of Boston history and an expert on American religion and American Catholicism, has been appointed University ...

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 ...

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 ...