Anti-Catholicism was not a central force driving the colonists to revolt, but it played a role, shaping their political ...

In this undated photo, G.K. Chesterton, left, receives an honorary degree from Holy Cross Father Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., then president of the University of Notre Dame (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, ...

LONDON — In medieval times, England was called “Our Lady’s Dowry” — a dowry feared lost with the English Reformation. In modern times, the Ordinariates, Catholics dioceses with an English patrimony, ...

Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism as an old and faded thing, a vision of the future that belonged to ...

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on Big Pulpit. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict ...

English saint and convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism John Henry Newman was approved for the title “doctor of the Church” on July 31 — one of the highest honors a Catholic can receive from the ...

The Catholic Church in England and Wales plans to distribute one million “faith cards” to every parish in the country in a bid to help all baptized Catholics to know, live and share their faith. “We ...

D.J. Taylor’s pleasing review of “The Unquiet Englishman” (Bookshelf, Dec. 26) notes the biographer’s refutation of Graham Greene’s claim in his 1971 autobiography “A Sort of Life” to have visited a ...

Joseph Pearce is an English-born Catholic writer and literary critic who serves as director of book publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review (www.staustinreview.org), ...