The Boston Globe headline was blunt: "Church allowed abuse by priest for years." This massive investigation into sexual abuse ...
Born enslaved, rejected by U.S. seminaries and ordained in Rome, Augustus Tolton became the first publicly recognized Black Catholic priest in America. His life exposes the Church’s history of racial ...
On Feb. 2, Día de la Candelaria will mark the end of the holiday season for the Catholic and Latino communities, celebrated with tamales, faith, and family.
Allen was a journalist who was a Catholic and an active Catholic who was a real journalist, and he fought to balance that ...
Catholic schools exist for a distinct purpose: to educate students not only for academic and professional success, but ultimately for eternal life, school leaders have noted.
Little is known publicly about the closed-door conversations held among the world's cardinals when they gathered in Rome last week for Pope Leo XIV's first extraordinary consistory. But a leaked ...
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Does Pope Leo want synodality without the laity?

(RNS) — Never underestimate the ability of clericalism to triumph in the Catholic Church.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world’s cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two years. They ...