The Roman Catholic Church is on the brink of collapse, says James Carroll, a former priest, and he thinks that’s great news. Mr. Carroll, a research associate at Harvard University’s Divinity School, ...

St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church started with promise in 1874, when the land around the new parish, in what is now the St. Louis Place neighborhood, was still rural. Within five years, the humble ...

My mentor in studying moral theology, the Jesuit Josef Fuchs, once noted that “innovation” marked the agenda of most Roman Catholic moral theologians from the 1940s through the end of the 20th century ...

From being born enslaved to building the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, the trajectory of Father Augustus Tolton’s life is remarkable. Almost as stunning is the fact ...

Pope Francis’s 69-year-old successor is the first in the history of the Roman Catholic Church to be born in the United States and the first Augustinian.

Sunday, October 25, 1857 dawned unseasonably warm and humid over the city of Philadelphia. Up early that morning, Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, pastoral leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...