The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop George J. Lucas and appointed the Rev. Michael McGovern, Bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois, as the sixth Archbishop of Omaha.

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The Trump administration aims to reset the economy to produce as much as it consumes, addressing the historical issue of ...

The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it also doesn’t support treatments that prolong suffering in ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Francis Asbury, Sylvester II becoming pope, and ...

The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation has announced the launch of the Catholic Initiative to help ensure the continuation of ...

Michael Mewshaw's new novel, set in an artists' residency in Granada, is a comic take-down of American policy and its role in ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

One key example: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which carry the story of Jesus’ followers forward after his ...

As a minister and theologian, one aspect of the chat troubled me most of all: the overt religiosity with which Vance baptized ...