Pope Pius XII declared the dogma of the Assumption on Nov. 1, 1950. “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, ...

ANALYSIS: Two last-minute decisions to deny Catholic funeral rites highlight a broader campaign for rapprochement between ...

Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), addressed the loss of federal grant ...

The child, called Gabriel by his surrogate mother, McKenna West, was born in Dallas on Aug. 12. He was born amid an ongoing legal dispute after his biological parents, identified in court documents as ...

Archbishop Coakley is among the numerous U.S. bishops that regularly advocate against the death penalty. The Death Penalty ...

For St. Edith Stein, divine beauty is “the ultimate ground or cause of everything that is beautiful” and the remedy to the emptiness and superficiality of a world that seeks beauty without recourse to ...

The Lilly Endowment has given the University of Notre Dame a $5 million grant to support the Department of Theology’s Master of Arts and Master of Divinity programs. “This grant connects Notre Dame’s ...

From shared meals and prayer to lasting friendships and peace of mind for parents, Centro Maria is helping young women thrive during their time in the nation’s capital. Young women gather for dinner ...

Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz, Germany, who chairs the pastoral commission of the German Bishops’ Conference, said the Vatican’s reasoning on the ban on lay preaching is, in his view, “not entirely ...

ANALYSIS: The Sept. 25-28 papal trip will be a significant journey to the heart of secularized Europe, highlighted by ...

If it’s a Wednesday in Rome, recently married couples — husbands in suits, wives in white dresses — gather at the Vatican for a special papal blessing called the Sposi Novelli (“newlyweds”). Couples ...

The death toll remains unknown as authorities assess the damage, which affected several cities in the western part of the ...