John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the United States, inaugurated a new era in the history of American Catholicism. The same could be said for the second Catholic president, Joe ...
Joining Wichita among the ranks of dioceses that ordain more men than they need were Paterson, New Jersey and Arlington, Virginia, along with Nashville, Springfield in Illinois, and Grand Rapids, ...
Pope Francis has accepted Archbishop Dennis Schnurr's resignation and named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey as his ...
Named to lead New York's vast Catholic diocese, Edward Egan was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Look back ...
The dispute involves Catholic precepts on immigration and charity—which the Church has administered for decades through U.S.A ...
It synthesizes recent ecumenical developments on this topic, responding to St. John Paul II's 30-year ... view of the Roman Catholic Church—and thus the pope—due to centuries of conflicts ...
From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...
With interest in a papal elections high thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Conclave, ” Pope Francis decided to extend the ...
Pope Francis has thrown a wrench in some of the speculation about a future conclave. He's decided to extend the term of the ...
It was 2020, and the university’s chancellor, John Fahey, had advanced leukaemia ... These views happen to be on matters that are inherent to Catholic Church teaching. I have never criticised ...
The Catholic Church’s last ordinary Jubilee celebration, which took place in 2000, was deemed a “Great Jubilee” by then-Pope John Paul II, commemorating two millennia since the birth of Christ.
Here are several of those martyrs and their stories, listed by religious order: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891–1942) — also known as Edith Stein — was a Catholic convert of Jewish ...