Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

COMMENTARY: The evolution of the fiddleback chasuble offers a glimpse into how function and fashion shaped liturgical garments.

Pope Leo XIV has created history as the first-ever American-born leader of the Catholic Church. For the first time since his ...

This 600-year-old ‘Crucifixion’ fresco has been restored to its original splendor, thanks to the support of U.S. nonprofit ...

The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

EDUCATION to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways ...

Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

What is not generally known is that Washington played a role as a founding father of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and cemetery, the oldest Catholic parish and cemetery in Virginia.

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation this way: "Within the Catholic Church ... Canonical rites, which are of equal dignity, enjoy the same rights, and are under the same obligations.

The issue and history of slavery are quite complex. Throughout history, the Church found Herself among cultures practicing slavery and had to deal with it.