In a first of its kind gathering, the more than 350 delegates from around the world that are participating in this month's Synod of Bishops are first meeting outside of Rome for a three-day retreat ...

Here's an interesting claim. I'll start with where I first saw it: on Michael Brendan Dougherty's tweet: I really don't think I can do this. But if the Roman Church's position on the papacy really is ...

Mattingly: For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was shaped by waves of believers fleeing wars, revolutions ...

A staunchly conservative Catholic bishop is retiring, leaving behind a legacy of fighting for orthodoxy. Lichtenstein’s archbishop Wolfgang Haas has tendered his resignation leading the nationwide ...

The Catholic Church lost one of its most courageous and articulate defenders in James Likoudis, who died Sept. 3 at the age of 95. A revered historian, apologist and educator, Likoudis devoted his ...

Ratzinger, a rigorously conservative guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy who turned 78 on Saturday and was chosen the Catholic Church's 265th pontiff Tuesday, went into the Vatican conclave a leading ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shift, molded by plummeting church attendance, increasingly traditional priests and growing numbers of young Catholics searching for more orthodoxy, has reshaped parishes ...

Contrary to a popular misconception in some Catholic circles, Dorothy Day, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was not a political liberal or a socialist. Nor was she a theological liberal ...

When the new pope was presented to the cheering crowd at St. Peter's Square on March 13, 2013, not many people in the rest of the world outside Latin America knew much about Argentine Cardinal Jorge ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is a long shot, though some are cautiously optimistic ...

Less than a week after becoming vice president, JD Vance, only the second Catholic to hold the office, had a very public break with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Without ...

MADISON, Wis. — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was ...