Catholic Church

How on earth did this happen?

A six-month U.S. tour, The Heart of a Priest, is offering the chance to venerate a relic of St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney.

Churches continue to work at the grassroots to see the peace deal implemented.

In the rise of European secularism, Poland is an exception. Not in the rise of right-wing extremism.

First Erin White fell in love with Christ. Then she fell in love with Chris.

The problem with John Podesta's outraged critics isn't their tone. It's their narrow understanding of church—and organizing.

Politi's account reveals much of what happened among the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on those days in March 2013.

There’s the Pope Francis buzz. And then there’s reality. 

Last week news outlets reported that Pope Francis would form a commission to study the issue of female deacons in the Catholic Church. The predictable reverberations began immediately.

Within a decade, a sixth of the world's Catholics will be African—yet the continent has few canonized saints. This is starting to change.

One might expect Spotlight to be fascinating because of the victims' stories. But it's the focus on clerical and legal institutions that grabs the viewer.

Just when I was feeling despondent, I was asked to review a book by Luigi Giussani. His rhetoric both bamboozled and mesmerized me.

In January, Pope Francis will visit the Philippines. By 2050, there could be 100 million Catholics there.

Calvary is a masterpiece of religious filmmaking. Its greatest achievement is to convey the impact of a community's near-collapse of faith.

The United States and the Catholic Church share some intriguing similarities: both are global in reach, exert significant influence over hundreds of millions of people, and (perhaps most interestingly) make serious teleological claims. Such claims have not necessarily clashed, for they appeal to different social and moral aspects of humanity. At their best, they can be complementary empires of promise. 

As we remember the Reformation over the next couple of years, we should also recall its global context.

On February 11, comedian Stephen Colbert asked historian Garry Wills if he was in favor of the next pope being not John Paul III or Benedict XVII but “Nobody the First.” Wills smiled and said, “Ah, very good idea.”

For some Catholics, this idea is more than a joke.

How has Western society become so fractious, polarized and secular? Why are we powerless to curb consumerism? Brad Gregory blames the Reformation.

A Penn State VP felt pressured to leave because she didn't understand the "Penn State way." It's a way that's not limited to Penn State.

John F. Kennedy's famous
Houston speech on church and state during
the 1960 presidential campaign elicited Rick Santorum's after-the-fact disgust. Though Santorum
misrepresents the speech in some ways--Kennedy didn't say anything about
limiting religious institutions and leaders from speaking on public issues--he
is right to find the speech theologically lame.