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 ...

Jean-Arnault Dérens, historian and editor-in-chief of Le Courrier des Balkans, has just published Geopolitics of Orthodoxy: ...

A banned book left out of the Bible more than 1,600 years ago has resurfaced — and it's turning heads with a very different ...

Still, the critically acclaimed HBO show gets plenty of things right. No wonder there has been little to no criticism by scholars and former mobsters over the years. In fact, so realistic is the show ...

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.

In an intimate church service, Reverend Gerry Lococo celebrates mass as an ordained Roman Catholic priest ... the official church structure, and because the Catholic Church forbids women from ...

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic ... is not within the hierarchy of the Church,” she said, asking ...

Rather than reflexively corralling the cardinals into a Conclave to elect his successor, I propose a wholesale institutional reset to maximize the Roman Catholic Church’s usefulness ... Nor do I ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentine who moved to liberalize the Catholic Church ... but struggled with conservative church hierarchy, sometimes finding himself at odds ...

Francis moved to clean up the Curia, the staid central administration of the Roman Catholic Church that ... not welcomed by all members of the Church hierarchy, some of whom had become accustomed ...

Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church ... Benedict's work to root malicious clerics out of the Church hierarchy "with the wrath of God," appointing task forces ...