New data from the most comprehensive survey of American Catholic women ever conducted.

Alice McDermott's new novel will provoke contemplation and prayer. It is a Catholic book, and it will seep into you like indigo into a clean, pure bolt of cloth.

Lois Smith called writer-director Greta Gerwig "a remarkably talented person."

They may be sisters, but this is no act.

On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church lost a moral titan in the long struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States.

Pope Francis formally recognized the martyrdom of an Italian Consolata sister murdered in Somalia in 2006 and the martyrdom of a 25-year-old priest in Hungary in 1957.