Many men enter seminaries and religious communities well after the age traditionally associated with priestly formation. Some ...

"Just who do you think you are?" How many of us heard that from a teacher, a peer, a parent or someone else who was less than pleased with us at that moment? This rhetorical question springs from an ...

"The demand for ideological conformity to extreme views combined with the structural impediment caused by gerrymandered ...

Writings by St. Thomas Aquinas laid the groundwork for the concept back in the 13th century, but the Industrial Revolution ...

While the outside world forms general impressions of Pope Francis, insiders tend to see any new papacy through the prism of their own particular interests. Liturgical traditionalists, for instance, ...

The pontiff prayed for peace in the Holy Land, and in Ukraine and Russia. He also prayed for Colombia following an earthquake ...

Pope Leo XIV returned to Assisi on Aug. 6 for the second time in his pontificate, addressing more than 2,000 young people ...

The veteran New Testament scholar has written and edited widely-read works including The Misunderstood Jew, The Bible With and Without Jesus and The Jewish Annotated New Testament.

An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe's tallest was inaugurated Aug. 15 in a small Polish village, in the presence of legendary anti-communist leader Lech Walesa.

"Every human life, given by God, is sacred," Florida's Catholic bishops told Gov. Ron DeSantis Aug. 13 in urging him to stay the execution of William Silvia and commute his death sentence to life in ...

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts David Beckmann, former president of Bread for the World, a Christian advocacy organization that fights poverty and hunger. On ...