Several options are available to the Holy Father, who has pledged to heal divisions and build bridges within the Church.

Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine ...

But his role in the Catholic hierarchy’s century-long campaign of organized crime against children made me hesitate. When I was 6, I was abused by a Catholic priest. He was a "good-time ...

Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.

Closure of The Atonement Catholic Academy has re-ignited a fight with Lumen Christi Academy, a Catholic school operating ...

From the daily newsletter: a conversation about drugs, God, and science. Plus: the new official language of the U.S.; “Salome,” perverted.

Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

At the Protestant Revolution, rood screens were demolished and altar rails became the boundary markers between the nave and the sanctuary. Catholic practice followed. That the altar rails also served ...

The priest who complained about “Stockholm Syndrome ... Last year, after he announced plans to educate seminarians outside the church hierarchy, the church charged him with schism and ...

Pope Leo XIV’s record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...