Schism has been in the news lately: Recent headlines include the former nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò having been summoned to Rome to answer formal charges of schism; and a ...

An Israeli shell struck the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, officials said. Israeli Prime Minister ...

Pope Francis’ call for a synodal Catholic Church is now the central pillar of his pontificate. As he declared in 2015, at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops, “The ...

BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK – The escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories often brings focus on the tensions between Judaism and Islam, the two majority religions in the region.

For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only ...