The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

The human quest for transcendence and meaning has not disappeared with modernity, but has adapted to the evolving cultural ...

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Dioceses of Sioux City, Iowa, and Norwich, Connecticut, all received new appointments.

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

In the latest LDS news, we look at the differences between Latter-day Saint and Catholic missionaries, along with compromises ...

Once upon a time, there were liberal Republicans, conservative Democrats and plenty of centrists on both sides.

Catholic universities that specialize in the traditional liberal arts, such as Thomas Aquinas College, Thomas More College of ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years. The Jubilee has roots in the Jewish practice of Sabbath rest every seven days ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...