That was Marianne Duddy-Burke’s response to “Created in the Image and Likeness of God: An Instruction on Some Aspects of the Pastoral Care of Persons with Same‐Sex Attraction and Gender Dysphoria,” a ...

COMMENTARY: The Catholic Church teaches that we need more than a quick prayer — we need confession’s hard reset to keep us on course.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic clergy ‒ along with pastors in many other traditions ‒ struggled with secular authorities or even their own leaders while trying to provide sacred rites at the ...

For anyone interested in becoming Catholic, wishing to complete the sacraments or wanting to learn more about what the church teaches, the answer for decades was "join RCIA." The Rite of Christian ...

My column on Wednesday cast a cold eye on the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate. But this is the Lenten season, and as a longtime critic of the present pontiff, it wouldn’t be particularly ...

Two catechisms from North Korea have led a South Korean theologian to develop some insights about the faith life of Catholics in North Korea, which has no resident Catholic priests. Father Joseph Jung ...

Catholics love a good conversion story. Since the early days of Christianity, we have cherished the tales of saints, scholars and artists who entered the Catholic church as an act of radical departure ...

ROME — Canon lawyers and experts in the traditional liturgy have warned that a pastoral instruction issued by the Diocese of Rome that bans traditional communities and priests from celebrating all the ...

That Henry VIII's religious policy after the break with Rome was 'catholicism without the pope' is a common characterization. Yet while it is fair to insist that he consistently rejected the teachings ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When Dave Harris' 91-year-old grandmother tested positive for COVID-19 on May 1, he knew the outcome likely wouldn't be good. "The prognosis with COVID-19 is not real great for people ...

Many people believe that the Philippines is the most Catholic country of Asia. But this has not been the case since the 1990s; Timor-Leste now has a higher percentage of Catholics. How do we explain ...