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The Rev. Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his doctoral thesis on the way local Augustinian superiors exercise authority.

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I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine, also known as the Augustinians or OSA, an ...

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The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of ...

Over two billion people worldwide identify as Christian. Within those two billion Christians, over 30,000 different denominations exist. This article will examine the history and beliefs of two of the ...

Here's what to know. All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around. Christianity, according to Britannica.com, is a world religion rooted in the life, teachings and death of ...