There may be a way to satisfy both sides. Two recent books analyze the role of the Catholic Church in light of modern times. One is from a Catholic author who leans right politically, the other ...

He designed a website to catalog miracles. In other words, he’s a modern saint. As young people leave the Catholic Church in droves, there’s perhaps no one more relevant than the first ...

The Catholic Church has approved for canonization its first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis. Known as God's Influencer, Acutis represents a new way to view sainthood in the modern era. Carlo Acutis ...

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council ...

Francis had led the Roman Catholic church since Benedict XVI resigned ... Of the 260 whose birthplaces are known, 80% were from modern-day Italy. By our calculations the centre of the papacy ...