Among the traditional religious activities that can earn one an indulgence — such as pilgrimage to holy sites, acts of ...

Just days before the start of a U.S. administration that’s promised a swift immigration crackdown, hundreds of Guatemalan ...

Among the traditional religious activities that can earn one an indulgence — such as pilgrimage to holy sites, acts of charity and saying special prayers — Pope Francis introduced a new option: a call ...

Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse of ...

"In the journey of life, we could identify hope as the signpost that marks our itinerary," Pope Francis said during a meeting ...

NCR readers respond to articles about plastic production, Bishop John Stowe's blessing of women acolytes and Cardinal Robert ...

The thing NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters most admired about President Joe Biden's Catholicism these past four years was ...

President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 15 to warn against the concentration of power not only in ...

Amid what a Catholic charity called "unimaginable" suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United ...

In a statement released Jan. 16 by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land said they ...

Pope Francis suffered a fall and injured his right arm, the Vatican announced on Jan. 16. According to a brief statement, the ...

As may now be apparent, I disagree with my colleague Michael Sean Winters who wrote that James Earl Carter Jr. was a failed ...