The Roman Catholic Church traces its origin to the apostles and specifically to Peter. They are by far the largest ...

Artificial insemination is morally unacceptable. This is not your old-style Roman Catholic catechism. More than 400 years after its last catechism defended the faith against Protestant reformers ...

Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua) , 4 and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism ...

Admirers of Thomas Merton are lobbying to get the late Kentucky monk's life story put back into a new Roman Catholic catechism. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' first doctrinal guidebook ...