The church should not be eager to embrace celebrity pundits who offer big money and audiences only to embarrass it a few ...

What’s behind a growing rift between conservative U.S. Catholics and the Vatican Efforts by Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church more inclusive for LGBTQ+ people and women, alongside urging ...

The Catholic Church cannot be credible ... the pope wrote in the preface to a new book on prison chaplaincy, "A Christian on Death Row," written by American lay Catholic prison chaplain and ...

In recent years, the growing number of Catholic convert celebrities reads like a "Who's Who" of MAGA and conservative ...

Hannan of New Orleans, and Cardinal Francis Spellman ... to say these things charitably and productively in the American Catholic Church. But they are being said, sometimes in audible whispers ...

Join the American Catholic Historical Society for a virtual lecture on Catholic-Protestant relations given by Dr. Leah ...

Pope Francis' big Catholic reform project has opened with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial ... the most popular method of birth control among American women —regardless of religion.

David Gibson says a new study ... drop in the Catholic population following the sex-abuse scandal and more than $3 billion in donations to non-Catholic faiths, with Baptist churches showing ...

Views vary on other ideas, such as recognizing same-sex marriages. Most see Pope Francis as a change in the church’s ...

A Catholic priest’s flashy style caused tension with the bishop in Brooklyn — and the priest’s deal with pop star Sabrina Carpenter may have kicked off a federal investigation that’s elevating the ...

A new survey indicates that many Catholics in Latin America and the U.S. favor allowing women to become priests, with a ...