If Catholic bishops hope to reclaim their moral credibility after revelations about covering up clergy sexual abuse, the hierarchy might start by sending a simple but potent message: Church leaders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2018, Vox commissioned me to write a story about medieval Catholic ideas and the radical transformation of American politics ...

A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute argues that Catholic school students exhibit more self-discipline than their peers in both private and public schools, and that this remains true ...

Back in the 1980s, during a holiday get-together, one of the family elders, who was known for sweeping declarations, made a sweeping declaration: “You can’t be a Republican,” she said, “and be a good ...

At the time, the Catholic News Agency reported Cardinal Cupich wanted "a more supportive, clearly pro-Biden statement, and that he spent most of Wednesday trying to get the support of other bishops to ...

Last week, The Associated Press reported that the U.S. Roman Catholic Church used special exemptions to receive coronavirus aid. The article deliberately cast the participation of Catholic churches in ...

As someone born and raised a Catholic and educated by the Jesuits, I am troubled by the role some Catholics seem to be playing in Donald Trump’s attempts to demolish the world’s oldest democracy. I am ...

When millions of European immigrants came to the United States in the 19th century only to be scorned by mainstream society, it was the Catholic Church that embraced them, taught that keeping the ...

Precisely when and where the first Catholic school began in this country is a bit of a mystery. What is known, though, is that Catholic education goes back, historically, to at least the year 1606 in ...

“Is the pope Catholic?” used to be a sarcastic rhetorical question that could only be answered “Yes.” But now, in the latest spasm of what might be called Francis Derangement Syndrome, 19 Catholic ...

I enjoyed reading Rev. Phillip J. Brown’s recent commentary regarding the criteria necessary for admission to the seminary and priesthood (“The McCarrick Report: a call to reform Catholic priest ...