Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic Church in a more progressive direction while leading with compassion, openness ...

Now, Pope Leo XIV, the church’s new leader and ... was essentially both a conservative and a liberal, by American standards, at the same time, as Catholic writer James T. Keane argued in 2021.

But a growing movement seeks to introduce students to the Church’s rich heritage of the traditional liberal arts before the university level, and programs like the Institute for Catholic Liberal ...

Because of the pope’s role to maintain the fullness of tradition and the unity of the Church, a pope cannot be conservative or liberal in a political sense.

As I indicated in my remarks responding to Trish, I had assumed all along that liberal Catholics wanted to liberalize Catholic doctrine — that they wanted to bring the church, as I wrote in TNR ...

ANALYSIS: JD Vance now has the dubious honor of being scolded by two Popes, a rare feat that puts him in the company of the serpent from the Garden of Eden and Satan himself, writes Richard Hall.

In other words, the secular contrast between “liberal” and “conservative” doesn’t work inside the Catholic Church, at least in its most senior ranks, because a distinction that ends up ...

Yet his account of his conversion to the Catholic Church, published in 2020 in the magazine The Lamp, marks him as very much a man of our post-liberal moment. In his essay, Vance explains the ...

Catholic liberal arts colleges have turned toward traditional architecture when expanding to accommodate the numbers. Here ...

I enjoy occasionally taking my children to various churches to ... that newly ordained Catholic priests are overwhelmingly ...