President Donald Trump, elected in part due to his hardline immigration stance and “America First” foreign policy, has moved rapidly to reshape federal policy. Just weeks into his new administration, ...

A Vatican probe into Bishop Emanuel Hana Shaleta has prompted clarification that Michael M. Pham leads San Diego’s Catholic diocese.

Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s new secretary of state, discussed the Catholic understanding of priestly celibacy in an interview with the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal earlier ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

While the Second Vatican Council gave the Catholic Church a "beautiful" document on the priesthood, "it did not face the fundamental question" of the difference between Catholic and Protestant ...

Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar and Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego will lead the inauguration of the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence on Sept. 29 in Rome at the Istituto Maria Santissima ...

A Christian-Jewish action group to promote mutual understanding and better relations between Catholics and Jews has been formed in Spain, it was reported here today. The unprecedented new group ...