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

To join an OCIA program, reach out to a local Catholic parish. If you have Catholic friends, they may be able to help you ...

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.

His story is a call to hope and a challenge to the Church in India to see finally and fully those it has failed to embrace ...

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.

Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as jubilous cheers erupted from the crowd. “We have a pope!” In his first ...

we asked our readers to submit their views on the Catholic Church. Bill Fox (66), a retired clinical psychologist from Co Sligo, says he is “very proud to be a Roman Catholic in Ireland today”.

“Everybody has their role and we are happy to stay at our place, which is not within the hierarchy ... how the Roman Curia – the administrative body of the Roman Catholic Church – is an ...