Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in 'America' more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial ...

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

Grech said the new phase’s goal “is to ensure that implementation does not happen in isolation, as if each diocese or eparchy ...

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Last week more than 30 bishops and cardinals joined with theologians, journalists and other Catholic leaders at Fordham ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions worldwide is also blamed for a liturgical dispute that has shaken India's ...

The Rev. Martin Marty, a Lutheran theologian and historian, speaks on the National Day of Prayer in 2007. (CNS photo/Ann ...

St. John Paul II greets Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986 at Rome’s main synagogue, believed to be the oldest Jewish community in the ...

As Pope Francis emphasizes liturgical formation in what may be his final message on the subject, the church faces a crisis in ...

William Barrett is hardly remembered in Catholic academic or literary circles, though his Catholic novels offer richly textured stories that avoid the sensational and sentimental.

Being on the altar at solemn High Mass at Westminster Cathedral, Tom Corbishley once remarked, is like engaging in an elaborate game of ecclesiastical chess.

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death. And he has personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his own ...