In less than three weeks, messengers to the SBC annual meeting will descend upon Dallas, where past will become prologue.

Catholic hospitals run 20% of California's maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

Pope Francis had called for the consistory in late February, when he was in the hospital, but the date was never set.

During her life, her Christ Universal Temple was the largest church congregation in Chicago and the largest church in the world headed by a Black woman.

In Ireland, a new study says attitudes towards the Church are “deeply divided” in the once deeply Catholic country.

In making the relatively recent move to Division I athletics across the board, officials at the University of St. Thomas made it clear that they were looking to forge their own path among ...

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, called on the pope to enshrine in canon law that the Catholic ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Catholic Relief Services, the official humanitarian agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., hosted a May 17 national ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Bronwen McShea is a historian and the author of three books, including Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know (Ignatius Press, 2024). This essay is adapted from the 2025 Teilhard de ...