Paris archbishop Michel Aupetit will be wearing a construction worker's helmet in addition to his miter.

His renunciation did not come as a total surprise given the controversy that erupted in Chile following the priest’s controversial statements after his nomination.

Francis may not pray in tongues, writes Austen Ivereigh, but no pope has ever identified as closely with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, nor been so keen to move it front and center of the church.

The great scholar just couldn’t get his mind around this great mystery.

The number of U.S. parishes without resident pastors has leveled off to about 3,400, according to the latest data from CARA—but only after dioceses have closed down thousands of churches since 1990.

At a new residential complex in North Carolina, graduate students and adults with developmental disabilities share living quarters and meet in prayer.