Every year in Italy, more and more people choose to go through the process of de-baptism, made available by the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics, to formalize their abandonment of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church must do a better job instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his or her abuse in the confessional and in the unlikely case that an abuser confesses, said Hans Zollner, S.J.

It is not sufficient for contemporary Catholics simply to repeat the formulas of the past.

On this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” producer Maggi Van Dorn and host Colleen Dulle dig into the history of the U.S. bishops’ engagement with political issues and give some background on today’s “Communion wars.”

The Covid pandemic has reminded us of the importance of placing the concerns of the community before our own as individuals. So why would we view the reception of the Eucharist as a private matter?

Denying Communion to Joe Biden will not get Catholics back in the pews — or bring together a church whose members are sometimes more likely to bend the knee to an elephant or donkey than to the eucharistic Lord.