COMMENTARY: The evolution of the fiddleback chasuble offers a glimpse into how function and fashion shaped liturgical ...

Most say having a personal relationship with Jesus is essential to Catholic identity. Roughly half say this about Marian ...

Within the Catholic Church, traditionalists and some canon ... but whose authority Catholics do not question, a well-rounded history of women’s participation in ecclesial governance has room ...

What is it that makes a church building “sacred?” Why do we enter great churches and cathedrals and gasp with wonder while ...

Most see their parish priests favorably, and many engage in their parish beyond going to Mass, according to Pew Research ...

What is not generally known is that Washington played a role as a founding father of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and cemetery ... s importance in the history and development of the United ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

I wanted to learn more about this remarkable parish, and how it formed a thread that was connected to the rich legacy of my ...

Numerous world leaders and more than 250,000 people will attend this Sunday's inauguration ceremony of Pope Leo XIV, the first US supreme pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church. The new ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

But he isn't just the leader of the Catholic Church ... The Vatican's complex history makes it unique among sovereign nations. "[It's gone] from being a shrine to a church to a kingdom to a ...

Frank Connor, a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, a mendicant religious order within the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV "being an American, first off, is historic. Then, being from Chicago ...