Fr. James Martin met with Pope Leo for about a half-hour. The meeting was officially announced by the Vatican in a sign that Leo wanted it made public. The audience was significant because it showed a ...

"We need to do some soul-searching and decide if this is a normal presidency or a presidency that has stepped outside the rule of law," she said.

"The voice of weapons must be silenced, while the voice of fraternity and justice must rise," Pope Leo XIV said.

Despite the horror carried out Aug. 27 by a shooter whose journal entries detail weeks of preparation and a fixation on ...

The publication noted the pontiff's link to Leo XIII, whose 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum "railed against the new ...

The archbishops of Chicago and Detroit echoed the prayers and condolences of fellow bishops, but also called for action to ...

Law enforcement officials identified the assailant in the mass shooting at Annunciation Church as Robin Westman, a ...

"His radio show and books shaped generations and fueled the shame that drove queer people like me into conversion therapy," ...

New Orleans' battered, 300-year-old history has been marked by fire, pestilence and storm, but Katrina was unprecedented in ...

Cinema tends to reduce female characters to stereotypes, and nuns are not exempt. While some recent films (and a TV show) have upended the stereotype, there are still nun stories we aren't telling.

We can hope that the move does not undo one of the signature achievements of Pope Francis: He broke up the court atmosphere that surrounded previous popes, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

The group has served predominantly Italian parishes in the Newark Archdiocese since the 1970s, but lately it's experiencing a ...