The pope must defend the family from the state's attacks while promoting peace and asserting independence from state power.

After winning back-to-back section titles, the goal for Mater Dei Catholic (33-10) became to hang its 12th state championship ...

When Pope Leo XIV was elected pope, the assembled crowd reacted with joy but also with surprise: He was the first pope from ...

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Exorcisms performed by the Catholic Church are likely the best ... Christians in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages could exorcize themselves, so to speak, by calling on a saint as an ...

The historic links between Guinness' St. James’s Gate in Dublin and the Catholic pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in ...

Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position as head of the Catholic Church, he started talking about ...

Fundamentalism is a quintessentially American form of religious expression, but one we associate almost exclusively with ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

But I’ve reduced it to one question now: what was the early church like? Did Jesus found a Protestant church that went bad, that is, Catholic, in the Middle Ages, or did he found a Catholic church ...

The new pope’s homage to Leo XIII invokes Rerum novarum, the Catholic Church’s 1891 encyclical engaging with the social ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...