On Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, the Catholic Church recalls Jesus ... except stained glass windows and the Stations of the Cross. In some places, the images are removed altogether.

Siegfried Sassoon’s late-life conversion and poetry offer a moving meditation on faith, suffering and the redemptive light of ...

Aging membership and an increasingly secular society are causing challenges for Pax Christi, the 80-year-old international ...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg has announced that it will allow use of the “gender star” in certain ministry contexts ...

The spokesman for the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym), Bishop Francisco César García Magán, stated ...

There's a reason why Catholics cover statues, crosses, and even some artwork during Lent, and it has everything to do with ...

WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court is hearing a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state’s unemployment insurance tax in the latest religious rights ...

American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy ... From 2004 to 2006, he taught in the History Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2008, he published Vatican ...

Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp Sunday, with warnings against “radicalization and a worldwide shift to the right.” ...

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Last year, German Catholic bishops, for the first time, published a statement describing “ethnic nationalism” as “incompatible with Christian values”—a stance reiterated on February 11 ...