The Vatican’s “Synod Study Group 9” has gone out with a whimper — and an embarrassing one at that. Originally tasked with applying synodality’s emphasis on “listening” to “controversial doctrinal, ...

Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor are two renowned Catholic philosophers not likely to agree about much beyond the Nicene Creed. But once, in 2005, I heard them agree about St. Thomas Aquinas.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The Sunday school lesson that was being taught 50 years ago on the morning of the bombing that killed four girls at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, "A Love That Forgives," will ...

When a church service is shared through a livestream, it’s not just a digital broadcast—it’s a moment of spiritual connection for people who may be miles away but still deeply rooted in the worship ...

The overwhelming control of the primary education system that the Catholic Church has held since the Famine results not from … The overwhelming control of the primary education system that the ...

I was 16 years old when my father died. A year and a half later, as a high school senior, I was called to succeed him as the pastor of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. I did not ...

Find today’s readings here. Their friend, the one they had given everything up to follow, has just been executed, and they are grieving. When Mary Magdalene tells them that Jesus is, in fact, alive, ...

Monica Phillips, a 25-year-old registered nurse from Albuquerque, N.M., sits in a hammock while talking with a patient March 16 outside a clinic in Wakapoa, Guyana. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) What does it ...

The Roman Catholic church's annual marriage preparation course cum spiritual exercise for engaged Christian couples has been a hit, with "zero" divorce cases reported since it began in 2005. The ...