The Vatican announced this week that its College of Cardinals will convene on May 7 for the conclave process at the famed Sistine Chapel – where they'll elect Pope Francis' successor as leader of the ...

In the wake of the Catholic Church sex scandals, many American Catholics are questioning some of the church's most time honored traditions: the role of laity and the importance of celibacy. On the eve ...

THE African Catholics who welcomed Pope Paul to their continent last week are among the newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of ...

I am a Catholic theologian and interreligious dialogue is my thing, so many people ask me what the Roman Catholic Church's position is on interreligious dialogue... as if it had ONE position on this ...

The number of people practicing the Catholic faith in the United States has grown over the last decade. The concentration of Catholics has also shifted. The Northeast and Midwest were once the center ...

For example, 61 percent of Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday said that abortion should be illegal in all or most circumstances. As the life of every Saint testifies, prayer is a crucial part of ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to estimate how many Americans have connections with Catholicism, to measure religious beliefs and practices among U.S. Catholics, and to explore what ...

In the Jan. 18 op-ed “Will influence of Catholic “natural law” make America medieval,” author Peter H. Schwartz attempts to correlate Catholic dogmatic beliefs to the rise in what he discerns to be ...

The College of Cardinals will convene on May 7th at the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis' successor. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity, differing from other branches primarily in ...

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