The death of a Pope is a time for assorted reflections on the Catholic Church. Protestants can be wary of speaking up. Even ...

Francis’ approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue differed notably from his predecessors, writes a scholar who studies ...

When Garrett spoke of sinful empathy, he merely echoed writers like Joe Rigney, who helped popularize the idea years before ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

The pope is, for a majority of U.S. Catholics, equally important in their connection to the Church as their local priest and ...

Moroccan Christian communities are expressing hope that newly elected Pope Leo XIV will carry forward the reformist and ...

Incoming Pope Leo XIV faces what some call the most-challenging environment for religion in China since Mao Tse-tung.

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The process of choosing a pope will have little if any of the zero-sum scheming common among bitterly divided U.S.

Once a Catholic stronghold, Latin America’s largest democracy is now on track to become majority evangelical, with rising ...

RTÉ Investigates examines the business of the Christian Brothers - and the lasting impact of what they kept, sold, and ...

Globally, the new pope’s moderation could have significant implications. As the first Western Hemisphere pope was Pope ...