At Castel Gandolfo last week, Pope Leo XIV managed to make global headlines—but not for preaching the gospel. Instead, he ...

Reflecting on Pope Leo's recent comment in an interview, Daniel Horan suggests we look to history for the ways in which changing attitudes did eventually result in changing doctrine.

Daryl Grigsby on the burning need for ordained female ministry to honor Christian tradition and enliven a stagnant, ...

The Catholic Church’s prohibition on Freemasonry dates back to Pope Clement XII, who formally condemned it in a papal bull in 1738. St. Peter's Basilica inside Vatican City. (photo: TTstudio / ...

VATICAN CITY— Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or ...

It is perhaps no great secret that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is facing something of an identity crisis. On the one hand, there are those who interpret Pope Francis’s leadership as a license to ...

One of the main reasons many Christians hesitate to share their faith is fear. We’re afraid of rejection, of not having an ...

Catholic bishops from around the world are meeting this month at the Vatican to discuss possible reforms, including the potential for a greater role of women in the church. It’s part of a years-long ...

The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a document on Wednesday reaffirming that Catholics are forbidden from becoming Freemasons. The new document signed by Pope Francis ...