Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

Sarah Mullally was confirmed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England ...

" states the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, which the Catholic Church uses at Mass. The Church encourages priests ...

"We need to continue to pray and work to change hearts," Bishop Conley said at the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil ...

COMMENTARY: When I came back to Catholicism, I realized that the most amazing choice ever made was God’s decision to enter our world as an unborn baby. This miracle forever established the ...

Jan. 22 is also observed by Catholics in the U.S. as the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. The date recalls the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, decisions in Roe v. Wade ...

MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, ...

"We need to redouble our efforts to continue building, in the words of St. John Paul II, 'a culture of life and a ...

Rodi Alvarado Pena cleans houses for a living, thinks about her two children in Guatemala and waits. For six years she has been in the United States seeking asylum, watching her case go back and forth ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, over 93% of the population identifies as Christian. The victims of ethnic hatred are Christians. The perpetrators of the violence—FARDC, Wazalendo, and FDLR—pray ...

The UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees on the west’s retreat in Sudan, the folly of abandoning state-building and ‘necessary anger’ ...