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 ...

Researchers claim to have a method of using AI to date the Dead Sea Scrolls — this could have implications for the way we ...

Do the social networks that Catholic influencers are forming online reflect the values of the Gospel or those of the platform ...

DO you think history should be left in the past? One Islander doesn’t think so – and is bringing a particularly brutal time in our sister island’s history back into focus in her new historical fiction ...

The U.S. Supreme Court concluded its 2024-2025 term, which included cases on topics such as the scope of authority of federal ...

Babies were buried, without coffins, one on top of the other in the 9ft-deep chambers of of a septic tank in Tuam, Galway ...