Eighty years after the priestly ordination of St. John Paul II, those who knew him and scholars who study his legacy say the ...

From horse-drawn ornate wooden carriages to a bulletproof all-electric vehicle, the papal modes of transport have evolved to ...

Five Franciscan friars killed in present-day Georgia for defending Church teaching in 1597 were beatified Oct. 31 in a Mass ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 3 in a case over a clash between Catholic preschools and the state of ...

Catholic opposition to state laws permitting assisted suicide for the terminally ill is expanding in federal courts. On Oct. 29, New York Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks, the Ar ...

The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, or "Education Freedom Tax Credit" -- a federal tax credit for donations to 501(c)(3) ...

The ability to carry out a major exorcism is technically what we call a "faculty," or the permission a bishop gives to a ...

I think we all struggle to pray. We are all beset by distractions, doubts, worries. So sometimes we switch it up and try a ...

Mt 5:1-12a On Nov. 1 this year we celebrate not the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time but the Solemnity of All Saints. All ...

Violence bookended both the beginning and end of Blessed Stanley Rother's 46 years of life: Born in 1935 -- during the fury ...

Father Mike Schmitz is one of the few priests whose name is just as at home on a brightly lit marquee as it is on a parish ...

For Catholic basketball fans, an upcoming contest between the University of Notre Dame and Villanova University in the ...