Five years ago, a group of social conservatives penned a famous essay titled “Against the Dead Consensus” in the religious ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Visitors to Rome will have the opportunity to experience St. Peter’s Basilica in a new way as part of an ...

These are clear signs that the president-elect intends to carry out some of the worst campaign promises, including mass ...

They murdered the archbishop. In May 1871, the Commune of Paris was surrounded by its enemies and desperate. It had been born ...

Recently my 6-year-old was having a tough day. “I prayed that I would have a good day,” she said, sorrowfully, “but it was a ...

Is Nabokov’s novel morally offensive? Patently, it is not. We live in a universe of treacherous choices, of corruption and ...

Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election will hang over the annual fall meeting of the U.S. Catholic bishops.

In an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, Cardinal Cupich says young Catholics will look back at the synod as “one of ...

The fundamental insight of the synod was not only that attentive listening was helpful in decision making, but also that the Holy Spirit was at work in everyone.

Dalí portrays a cosmic Christ whose unbloody crucifixion appears to hold the center of the universe together while the earth ...

The Vatican has announced the appointment of Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini as the new papal preacher, succeeding Cardinal ...

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...