Even pro-life advocates who have long called for overturning Roe v. Wade are unsure what comes next as a Supreme Court decision that could reverse the landmark 1973 decision is expected this month.

It is not enough to issue occasional condemnations of racism. The U.S. church must invest in Black Catholic churches and schools, as well as diocesan offices for Black parishioners.

Catholicism was the established religion of colonial Haiti, the site of one of the largest populations of enslaved peoples in the Americas.

A new exhibit at Stonyhurst College is a powerful testament to the role women played in maintaining the faith through dark times.

Fintan O’Toole reflects on the last 64 years in Ireland—a time when Irish life was almost completely transformed.

Pew reports that only 32 percent of U.S. Catholics believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The U.S. bishops are trying to make that number go up.

Pope Francis said “superficial” marriage preparation programs leave many couples at risk of having invalid marriages or unprepared to cope with the struggles that arise in every marriage.

“I am deeply grateful that members of Congress have undertaken bipartisan negotiations to address the plague of gun violence in our nation,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley said.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s tenure was not without controversy, but in my nine years of working with him, I found him to be a prayerful, generous and thoughtful man.

In the aftermath of sexual trauma, making a woman’s body the site of a legal battle is traumatic itself.