As an immigrant temporary professed Trinitarian friar in Maryland, I think often about the historical complexity of the Catholic Church in the United States; specifically, I'm curious about how the ...

‘I felt I had a vocation,’ says the noted British author about his life’s work. ‘It was what God wanted me to do.’ Piers Paul Read is pictured with book covers of ‘Alive: The Story of the Andes ...

Bronwen McShea is an American historian based in New York who has written three books on the history of Catholicism, including, most recently, Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know. Her ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...