That would include White women. There needs to be a long-term commitment to recover from the current damage while saving the ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, retiring Archbishop of Washington, D.C., will join Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, Archbishop of Newark ...

It was a court fight waged quietly behind closed doors for more than six years. Motions were argued before a judge in Trenton and filed under seal. An appellate panel reaffirmed the lower court ...

In a Feb. 5 telegram to Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, the Holy Father said he is deeply saddened by the incident ...

An unsealed court ruling shows why a judge blocked a long-promised grand jury investigation of sexual assault by New Jersey priests.

Smithfield means ‘smooth field’ and, though the Romans called it by a different name, they recognised that this green expanse was too useful to be covered in houses.

Pope Francis said he was "deeply saddened" by the tragic shooting in a Swedish school, sending "assurance of his spiritual closeness to all affected by this traumatic incident," in which 10 students ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, retiring archbishop of Washington, D.C., and the first Black Cardinal to serve in the United ...

A Nigerian, Magnus Ukadike, has won a municipal election in Brazil, making history as the first Nigerian to contest unopposed ...

When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer celebrates the lives of courageous women across history – ‘the viragos and matrons’ from Brigid to Bishop Budde – who have inspired, advocated for the oppressed, and never ...

Some church leaders raise concerns about religious freedom and say the change is making people afraid to come in and worship.