Best-selling author, Harvard professor and renowned social scientist Arthur Brooks says the missionary character and approach ...

The Anglican Communion is exploring diluting the Archbishop of Canterbury's role as its central symbolic leader, in an ...

Let’s not forget that, once upon a time, Catholicism was quite active in those countries. The Church honors “three kings” as ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

The specter of schism has hovered in recent years over the Metropolitan Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar ...

News about Roman Catholic Church, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Middle East is a region of contradictions — immense wealth beside immense suffering, glittering towers beside bombed-out ruins. But these outcomes are not the result of geography or luck. They are ...

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week in Rome and he urged them to ...

It’s almost straight uphill, with huge boulders making for a beautiful surrounding, but a tough walk. The trails were muddy, ...

Pope Leo XIV doubled down on Friday on his appeal for unity in the polarized Catholic Church, urging priests to act in communion with their superiors and be models of reconciliation in a world ...

A British Catholic aid agency is condemning Israel’s approach to aid delivery in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military is conducting a war against the militant group Hamas.