The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

When millions of European immigrants came to the United States in the 19th century only to be scorned by mainstream society, ...

Imagine that you are an organization that is obsessed with sex, and you have been for a long time, often in unhealthy ways. Now imagine that you are suddenly in a sex scandal on a global scale that ...

When millions of European immigrants came to the United States in the 19th century only to be scorned by mainstream society, ...

The Catholic Church in the United States today is facing a crucial test. Will Catholic leadership accommodate and adapt ...

Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is not the right leader ...

If you want some perspective on just how benighted the Roman Catholic Church looks today on the subject of women, consider Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard was a German Benedictine nun in the 12th ...

At a glance, Spirit of Grace church in Beaverton might appear to be just one of many progressive Protestant churches, not unusual in the Pacific Northwest. Its website and featured introduction video ...

As part of its broader reckoning with the Catholic Church's colonial past, the Vatican in 2023 formally repudiated the ...

A faithful Catholic can support strong and humane immigration law enforcement, according to the Catholic advocacy ...