UNDOUBTEDLY, many readers will switch to another story upon seeing that headline. Salvation after death holds far less ...

COMMENTARY: A journey across Eastern and Southern Africa revealed the Gospel lived with freshness and zeal — a sign of where the global Church is heading.

(The Center Square) – A new Arizona bill seeks to force priests and pastors to break their seal of confession if they learn about a case of child abuse. State House Minority Whip Stacey Travers, ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take place in an apparent Eden (the cozy village, the ivied college, the country ...

Perhaps someday, the Catholic Church will allow women to serve as deacons. But that time, a Vatican commission has decided, is not now. “In light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and ecclesiastical ...

(OSV News) — A new survey shows young adult Catholics are the most engaged in the Latin Church in the U.S. – but the “strong” dynamic is also “fragile,” and questions of leaving the church persist.

More than six decades after a 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered inside a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, church, investigators say they finally know who did it. Bucks County District Attorney ...

People are returning in droves to the Catholic Church in Connecticut, reversing a decades-long decline as particularly younger people search for deeper meaning and peace in a divisive world, priests ...

A federal judge has permanently barred Washington state from enforcing a 2025 law that would have required Catholic priests to report child abuse learned in the confessional, ruling that the measure ...

Officials in the state of Washington have agreed to water down a child abuse law after pressure from the Trump administration and local Catholic leaders. Catholic bishops and the Trump administration ...

Some March for Life Attendees Disillusioned by Administration’s Soft Approach on Abortion ‘Unilateral Surrender’: Trump’s TikTok Deal Leaves China in the Driver’s Seat, National-Security Hawks Warn ...

The state of Washington reached an agreement with Catholic officials this week not to require priests to report information that they learn in sacramental confession about suspected child abuse or ...