One supporter says confession rewards priests for secrecy and that silence protects perpetrators of sex crimes, not victims.

ROYAL PORTRUSH — It is hard to judge precisely what the benefit might have been to Rory McIlroy of a ­second near-dawn circumnavigation of Royal Portrush, save for the joy it brought early risers on ...

On July 16, 1054, the Great Schism divided Christianity into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, driven by ...

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa transforms a Spanish nun, mystic, and writer, into one of the most famous emblems of the ...

If we imagine ourselves as satisfying a God who will “give us” things only if we do the “right things,” then our relationship with God becomes less a friendship and more a chore.

Josep Lluís Iriberri is a Jesuit priest who designed a pilgrim path for St. Ignatius in northern Spain more than a decade ago ...