In his Nov. 4 New York Times opinion piece, Catholic pundit Ross Douthat argues that the reforms of Vatican II have proven disastrous for the Church over the past 60 years, in large part because the ...

Most Latin Americans are Christian, and Catholicism remains the dominant religion. But the exodus from the church continues in a region that was once a stronghold for the Catholic faith and has close ...

Shortly after 6 p.m. in Rome, the longed-for sight appeared above the Sistine Chapel: white smoke. Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come ...

Look — there’s America magazine, “the Jesuit review of faith and culture,” discussing the spiritual maunderings of actor Shia LaBeouf. He’s been on a “salvific journey” after facing charges of assault ...

For example, 61 percent of Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday said that abortion should be illegal in all or most circumstances. As the life of every Saint testifies, prayer is a crucial part of ...

After dropping his youngest son off at soccer practice one day, Daniel Markham happened to remember a nearby church he'd occasionally attended inside the Indiana Dunes National Park near Michigan City ...

He may not have been thinking about it at the time, but Pope Benedict, in the course of his recent U.S. visit may have dealt a knockout blow to the liberal American Catholicism that has challenged ...