Body snatching was a constant fear, as newly interred remains would be dug up and sold to medical students for study purposes ...

What to call the movement of Christians that broke full communion with the Catholic Church? In the English-speaking world, the “Reformation” has been the common term. Even many Catholics use it, ...

The Catholic Church is facing its most serious crisis in 500 years. In these last few months, a new wave of clerical sexual abuse revelations left the world in shock. From Australia to Chile to ...

In the wake of the horrendous sex abuse scandal which has afflicted the Catholic Church, criticism of Catholicism in its current form has exploded. Certainly much of the criticism comes with good ...

Lutheran and Catholic congregants worship side by side during a Christmas service at the St. Paul Lutheran and Catholic Community of Faith in Denver. Five hundred years ago this month, Catholic monk ...

PARIS (RNS) Five hundred years after the Reformation, one of Protestantism’s leading branches has officially said it now agrees with the Vatican on the main issue at the root of its split from the ...

Rocco Palmo reports on an astonishing speech that the Honduran Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga delivered recently in Dallas, outlining Pope Francis’s vision for the Catholic Church’s renewal. This is ...

What a way to screw up a celebration of the Reformation! And prove that the Catholic church still needs one! Pope Francis weighed in on the question of women priests... suggesting that it will never ...

Father Mitch Pacwa has become familiar to viewers of the Eternal Word Television Network as host of “EWTN Live” and “Threshold of Hope.” But the Jesuit priest also heads a production company, Ignatius ...

Amid ceremonies this year marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, one of Protestantism’s leading branches has officially said it now agrees with the Vatican on the main issue at the root of ...