Now even the word “scapular” is a rare sighting, let alone the lovely gentle honest thing itself.

Joseph Ratzinger “fell in love … in a very serious way” as a student and struggled “very much” with the idea of taking a vow of celibacy.

The bishops insisted it is not proper to speak of "permission to receive the sacraments" when it is, in fact, an invitation to "a process of discernment accompanied by a priest."

Catholic parishes must help to alleviate what some have termed an “epidemic of loneliness.”

To do right is never easy.

Today, a single atom bomb dropped on a major city would immediately kill hundreds of thousands.

Sixteen-year-old Giuseppe Chiolo had come to the Vatican by ambulance from Florence.

“There has been a Hispanic presence and influence in this country from the beginning. We need to recover this ‘forgotten’ history.”

The Boston College grad worked as an equities trader at the World Trade Center. But he had always wanted to be a firefighter.

Fewer than two in 10 U.S. Catholics hold a favorable view of Muslims, with many possessing little understanding when it comes to the beliefs of the world’s second largest religion.