The Catholic Church's history speaks volumes, Imagine if women were consulted on issues like clerical celibacy, the ordination of women, and respect for same-sex love. Women fared poorly in the ...

Although Nicolas Charbonneau was raised Catholic, he gave little thought to his faith as a teen. That changed in college during a semester abroad in Rome, when he visited St. Peter’s Basilica for the ...

The Catholic University of America has entered an era in which church doctrine is central to every aspect of the school's mission -- from educational offerings to dormitory assignments -- with some ...

When St. Peter Catholic Church in Volo, Illinois, wanted a huge stained-glass window of Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing to Juan Diego done in the traditional 19th-century Munich style once predominant ...

Long before eco-conscious faith, medieval monks were healing land, animals and harvests. New research suggests that the Vatican’s recently opened eco-friendly farm, inaugurated by the first pope from ...

It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door, and 50 years since this piece examining how Catholic historians understand Luther appeared in the pages of America. The ...

On any countdown of terrific Catholic stories over the last twenty years, the renaissance of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine would have to be near the top of the list. Numbering some five million ...

UZHHOROD, Ukraine — There are communities in Christendom that disappear from sight but flower again, like perennials from spring ground when the weather gets warmer. God’s truth never dies in these ...

Many have heard the quote, “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings,” from the popular Christmas movie “It’s a ...

That’s how Mary C. McDonald, the superintendent of Roman Catholic schools here, describes the reopening of seven Catholic elementary schools over the past four years in some of this city’s poorest ...

When Martin Luther chose the medium of print to distribute and popularize his ideas after 1517, the Lutheran message spread like wildfire through Europe. It has been estimated that the total print run ...