After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

When you hear talk about sexual abuse claims and the SBC, it’s not the same as talking about the Roman Catholic Church and ...

A look at legislative efforts in states across the country that cut to the heart of what it means to freely practice the ...

Sunday is a special day on the Christian liturgical calendar that marks the anniversary of when the Holy Spirit descended ...

Proposed Washington state legislation makes members of the clergy mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.

The Catholic Bishops of Washington on Thursday asked a federal court to block a new state law requiring priests to report ...

How will Pope Leo XIV deal with the Catholic bishops in the US who resisted the pastoral priorities set by his Argentine ...

The Roman Catholic Church traces its origin to the apostles and specifically to Peter. They are by far the largest denomination of Christianity with more than 1.2 billion Roman Catholic believers ...

Many religious groups have wanted to destroy liberal democracy, explains author Jerome Copulsky. But before Trump, none had ...

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine ...

The leadership of the Syro-Malabar Church condemned “protests and demonstrations” in the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly ...