Until the 1930s, the Catholic Church was not alone in its opposition to contraceptives. In the Christian tradition, birth control had long been associated with promiscuity and adultery ...

The Catholic Church has long supported voting as part of participation in public life — as a contribution to a nation’s common good and to the flourishing of its people. The Catechism of the ...

The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving the consecrated hosts with ...

To strengthen her position, Elizabeth passed laws to minimise the Catholic threat. Despite these measures, a fear of Catholic plots was an on-going and serious threat. The main figurehead for such ...

Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church From Australian country towns to schools in Ireland and ...

Confirmation is a sign that a person has reached maturity and is now able to take responsibility for their own faith. It also strengthens and deepens the connection to the Church that is ...

In the Roman Catholic religion, the Father (God), Son (Jesus Christ) and Holy Spirit are all incarnations of the same entity, while in the Christian faith, the Trinity is often seen as individual ...

But there is one reason not to feel shame, and that is for being a Catholic. However, there are false reasons for attaching shame to being a Catholic. It is important to spell these out so that ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The man further says that a Catholic nun was sent to marry Muhammad and train him to “raise up an army of Arabs to go ...

The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, N.J., and five of its priests whose legal status in the United States expires as soon as next spring, have now sued the federal agencies overseeing immigration.

A seminary on Flores, a Catholic-majority island in Indonesia, ordains so many priests that a lot of them go abroad to serve the faithful. Celebrating Mass on a Sunday at St. Paul Major Seminary ...

at St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church in Gary on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune) After growing up at St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church, Josie Werhowetz-Neiman ...