From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

Philippines may have nine vacant dioceses as bishops retire and transfer, creating urgent need for pastoral leadership in ...

Populist Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice party and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, beat liberal ...

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

Exorcisms performed by the Catholic Church are likely the best ... an affront to Roman Catholic doctrine and hierarchy alike. To the orthodox Catholic faithful—and, more importantly, to Catholic ...

Popes — they're just like us? Not exactly, but you wouldn't know that by the American fanfare surrounding the newly minted ...

According to the Roman Catholic tradition of apostolic succession, Peter was the first pope appointed by Christ. The line of ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost's selection of the name Pope Leo XIV was an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, the father of Catholic social doctrine.

If Leo’s recent predecessors are any guide, however, this American Catholic comity likely won’t last ... intimately involved in their homeland’s politics and Church life: as opponents of Roman ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

Resisting Orders untangles the power and resistance of women religious, asking what it means to agitate for change from within at a time of reckoning for the Roman Catholic Church.