The history of Black Catholics and other marginalized people in the U.S. church covering more than two centuries is one worth knowing and can guide the church's response to the challenges of racism ...

In Paragraph 176 of his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo XIV issues a historic apology for the Catholic ...

Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., in an undated photo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Born Clarence John Davis in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Davis was raised in a Congregational church but became Catholic as a ...

Historian Shannen Dee Williams' comprehensive and compelling history of America's Black nuns, “Subversive Habits,” will be published May 17. Sister Delphine Okoro, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of ...

Pope Leo Seeks Forgiveness for Catholic Church’s Involvement in the Slave Trade ...

The church’s role and support of the arts throughout the development of Western civilization cannot be underestimated. With that in mind, I stress the importance of art history as part of the ...

Karl Keating has been a household name among Catholics since the late 1980s, when he founded a lay apostolate dedicated to Catholic apologetics and evangelization. In the 1990s I produced Al Kresta’s ...

As its name suggests, The Two Popes (in theaters Nov. 27) follows two papal figures in the Catholic Church: Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce), the ...