Delivered just six weeks after Leo's election, it creates a broad picture of a new era unfolding in the Catholic Church.

I was a lifelong Catholic who had once seriously considered becoming a nun, and who now reported on the Vatican for a Jesuit ...

Rerum Novarum also had a profound influence on the Catholic Church itself. The document inaugurated what’s now known as ...

The apostolate of the laity is the mystical body of Christ in the world, which means it is comprised of Catholics who have ...

Following the June 19 death of Jesuit theologian Fr. Roger Haight, 89, colleagues recalled Haight's unfailing resilience, ...

In a meeting with future priests, Pope Leo XIV said celibacy is a charism “to be acknowledged, conserved and educated.” ...

That’s the best friend that he modeled: one who cares about your soul,’ says Christine Wohar, author of the book ‘Finding ...

COMMENTARY: Pope St. John Paul II called him ‘the saint of ordinary life,’ but we could also name him the apostle of the ...

Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law ending the death penalty in Illinois, the future pope thanked him for the move. That recently ...

Among those recognized at two theology conferences in June was Stephen Bevans, S.V.D., to whom the Catholic Theological ...

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell -- but not with the Chinese Communist Party.

Old friends are bewildered by the turn taken by the second lady, a onetime Democrat and former litigator for a San Francisco ...