People follow fads to fit in. And because it’s easy, which becoming Catholic is not, requiring time commitments and internal ...

There were always rumors about him, though. Johnny Rotten famously called him out on TV in the '70s. Richard Herring and ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

ROME -- The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

Before the Reformation, there was not a Catholic Church in the Roman Catholic sense we think of today. It was just the church ...

The clerk’s office discovered a Declaration of Intention form signed by Pope Leo XIV’s paternal grandfather, the first step in becoming a U.S. citizen.

It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

Before the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out in 2023, this writer was blessed to join a Holy Land pilgrimage in Israel. One of the highlights of the visit ...

Though it happened 1700 years ago, the Council of Nicaea exemplified a principle that is fundamental to certain Christian traditions (e.g., Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy) today: conciliarity. The ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

An article by Raymond S. Solomon about the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (May 2014 ...

Though Pope Leo XIV has been lauded for his advocacy in defense of immigrants and worker rights—his namesake, Leo XIII, who ...