From Gary Wills' new article at New York Review of Books: The early church had no specific rite for...

It's been more than a decade since the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal rocked Boston.  In that time, Survivors...

There's much more at stake in the discussion about conscience clauses than who gets the bill for the pill. By...

It's no secret there's a short supply of Catholic priests in the US, so when we heard that the...

Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors...

From Kathryn Joyce's recent article at Religion Dispatches: Adult victims could comprise up to 25% of all clergy abuse...

Michael Croland: Maryann Fuchs does not know why she takes her dogs to Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church year...

If the Pope says it's real... Pope Benedict XVI has declared the Shroud of Turin authentic. Writes Chris...

Ann Neumann: A new hashtag on twitter this morning: #popearrest.

In a country that’s 90% Catholic but has a tradition of rigid church-state separation, the legalization of abortion and...

Ann Neumann: Yesterday the Vatican announced that Mexican-born Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio will succeed Roger M. Mahoney as Cardinal...

Elissa Lerner: While the Catholic Church is still up to its eyeballs in its latest sex abuse scandals (most recently, an...

01 March 2006 “”How is it possible that Spain, such a Catholic country, is experiencing this?'” John Ward Anderson...

05 January 2006 The surprisingly successful campaign of Chilean Socialist, agnostic presidential candidate, Michelle Bachelet, has been making global...

Gene Robinson, the openly-gay Episcopal bishop whose 2003 ordination was one provocation for the current church divide that threatens...

Catchy headlines, catchier content: Ruth Gledhill reports that The Catholic Truth Society’s new Explanations series contains the work of...

Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI is proving less conservative than expected. But the...

Reporting on the growth of evangelicalism in Latin America isn’t exactly “news,” but Henry Chu‘s LA Times feature on the transformation is an...

In spirit of the holiday, Maureen Dowd tries to find common ground between Da Vinci author Dan Brown and Da Vinci judge Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who recently...

Rank Something, Anyway Wouldn’t you know — Richard Land is a man of the people. Or so he told NPR’s Terry Gross when...