It is so obvious that every chance the media gets (both written and broadcast), it jumps on the Catholic Church and any scandal, reporting loudly "while similar scandals in other groups are not ...

NEW YORK — Linda Mele Dougherty said she is old enough to remember when many Catholics identified where they lived by their parish affiliation. In her family’s case, the parish was Our Lady of Mercy ...

On Monday, I began my review of Anna Rowlands' important book, Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times, highlighting the way Rowlands situates Catholic social teaching ...

President Donald Trump, elected in part due to his hardline immigration stance and “America First” foreign policy, has moved rapidly to reshape federal policy. Just weeks into his new administration, ...

Communion was a big topic in the Catholic Church this year, after the U.S. bishops initiated a discussion about the sacrament at their June meeting and then overwhelmingly approved a statement on it ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

It will be interesting to see the outcome of the big meeting playing out in the Vatican, especially on the point about whether the Catholic Church will allow women priests. Pope Francis approved ...

Sixty years ago, the Catholic Church issued a revolutionary document called Nostra Aetate - Latin for "In Our Time." Adopted during the Second Vatican Council, it marked a dramatic shift in how the ...

The Twelfth Bishop of Harrisburg, Bishop Timothy Senior, has published an open letter to the Catholic community regarding immigration and the subsequent challenges involved. The op-ed titled, "An Open ...

A Christian-Jewish action group to promote mutual understanding and better relations between Catholics and Jews has been formed in Spain, it was reported here today. The unprecedented new group ...