The pushes for a real opening to women continue, and in Germany, the debate, after the death of Pope Francis and the election ...

The push for a real opening to women continues, and in Germany, the debate has taken off again in the Church following the death of Pope Francis and the election of Leo XIV, as they await ...

Cesar Galan belonged to a violent Los Angeles street gang. Then a shooting changed the way he saw the world and led him to ...

What seems irrelevant to outsiders, like the rumblings over the Traditional Latin Mass, are more internally important than unbelievers pushing the church on whether priests can be women or married ...

The quick election of a pope born and raised in the United States was a shock to almost everyone outside the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Conclaves begin with secular and Catholic experts making a list ...

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. The quick election of a pope born and raised in the United States was a ...

Within the Catholic Church, traditionalists and some canon lawyers raised objections about any non-ordained person, male or female ... tumult of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and ...

The Namugongo shrine is where St. Charles Lwanga, a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church, and his companions were burned to ...

The conclusions of the study are as dubious as the attempt to place mystical experiences in the context of organized religion. For example, Pollen says, “I think it’s ironic, and somewhat humorous, ...

All many journalists want to talk about is “the guys.” That focus on young males swimming the Bosphorus has created plenty of mainstream news reports. This week’s “Crossroads” podcast focused on a BBC ...

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

(RNS) — Less than four months after a Nazi-like salute cost him his license in the Anglican Catholic Church, the Rev. Calvin Robinson, a priest and British transplant living in Grand Rapids ...