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

Here’s a look at Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s life. Personal Birth date: April 16, 1927 Death date: December 31, 2022 Birth place: Marktl am Inn, Germany Birth name: Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Father: ...

The human quest for transcendence and meaning has not disappeared with modernity, but has adapted to the evolving cultural ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Liturgy of the Hours — also called the “Divine Office” — is the ...

A celebrated Italian Catholic composer and conductor is dismayed with the “very strong decline of the standard of sacred ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

WHAT DOES VALENTINE’S DAY MEAN? It is one of the oldest holidays in the calendar and celebrated all over the world. What is ...

Yet now the focus of Christian right isn’t on the defense of liberty; it’s on the accumulation of power. And it is using that ...

The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead.

The pope has closely followed the response of U.S. prelates to the president's attacks on migrants and he expects them to ...