Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter isn’t about furniture—it’s about the foundation of papal teaching and authority.

But Francis was also echoing St. Peter’s own recognition of his sinfulness, as he responded to Jesus when he first called him ...

The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary ...

The stories about Catholics that Hollywood tells—and awards—has as much to do with what is happening with the church ...

As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship ...

When we narrate the history of the church from the perspective of Black nuns,” says historian Shannen Dee Williams, “myths ...

At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...

Is that true? Absolutely not ... Because of Italy’s strong Catholic cultural legacy, laypeople of all backgrounds still place blind trust in the Church as an institution and are reluctant ...

American prelate, an exploding battleship, and the Roman Question all fed into Pope Leo XIII's decision to publish his 1899 ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...