In Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen practices calligraphy, writing Vietnam's modern script—a legacy of French rule.

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include St Ignatius of Loyola being wounded in battle, John Wesley s ...

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

"Most people survive thanks to remittances from relatives abroad. Commerce is informal, and healthcare is extremely ...

Sunday, May 18 marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit priest who famously ...

Enthusiasm soon coupled with shock---when it was announced that the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is ...

We want to be a synodal church. A church that walks, a church that always seeks peace, that always seeks charity, that always ...

Keenan, S.J., a Jesuit priest and professor of theology at Boston College ... and wanted to avoid a repeat of the French Revolution, when the church was viewed as siding with aristocrats and monarchs.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American, has been selected as the new pope and taken the name Leo XIV. White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday after Prevost secured at least 89 ...

Intrigue, fashion, humility, faith—133 cardinal electors have descended on Rome to choose a new pope and their every move and ...