Police have reacted after armed bandits killed a kidnapped Catholic priest, Reverend Father Sylvester Okechukwu on Ash ...

Isabelle Jonveaux, a sociologist of religion and lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), analyzes the new ways ...

Lawrence "Larry" Cunningham, a longtime professor of theology at Notre Dame University and a well-known writer on ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The first day of March is St David’s Day. Who was St David and why is he the patron saint of Wales? This is the story ...

Across town is the Basilica di Santa Chiara, dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate St. Francis. He made available to her and the growing group of women following her a local ...

With the beginning of Lent, many restaurants have specials for Catholics who will be looking for seafood options on Fridays. Here's where to find it.

The subtitle of the book is a series of unfriendly characterizations: “The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and ...

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

With his canonization, José Gregorio Hernández not only becomes the first Venezuelan saint, but also a symbol of faith and ...

Growing up only 20 miles from ‘The Hill,’ Luke Cecchi was raised as a Syracuse basketball fan. His grandfather, a ...

In 1932, when he was leader of the Italian Popular Party, he was arrested by ... The prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, after having obtained the ...