Catholics in colonial New England kept a low profile, and for long stretches there was effectively no public Catholic life at ...

Independence Hall is a mere 15-minute walk from St. Augustine’s Church, the first church run by the Augustinian order in the ...

The hostility to immigrants enabled by yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions marks a profound moral failure in the American ...

Today, the Vatican has taken a stricter, more inflexible position than those taken under Popes Benedict XVI and Francis.

Catholic life throughout the region was often sustained quietly through family networks, informal gathering places, and the ...

We must not resign ourselves to violence. God continues to open paths of reconciliation and peace throughout history. We have ...

Catholic life in the early Upper South developed unevenly, with bold promise in Maryland and little visible presence ...

The Vatican has rejected a request from the German bishops for special permission to allow lay men and women to preach ...

Tom Florek, S.J., is the executive director of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, a national nonprofit made up of 40 ...

Well aware that some cardinals still have serious reservations about synodality and its implementation, Pope Leo explained ...

As the second consistory of the year, the pope is making good on the cardinals' requests for further collaboration, which the ...

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story now turns to the lower South and the ...