Amid debates about transgender rights, two conservative Catholic groups have played a consequential but often undisclosed role. NCR looks at the Person and Identity Project and The Cardinal Newman Society.
Pope Francis has written to a group of parents of LGBTQ persons, responding to their criticism of a Vatican document that condemned gender theory and gender-affirming surgeries. He told them he received their critique with an "open heart."
In a new crackdown aimed to prevent scams, hoaxes and heresies, the Vatican has updated its guidelines for reviewing apparitions, visions and alleged revelations, and reaffirmed that only a pope could formally deem something to be "supernatural."
Word on Fire, a nonprofit founded by Bishop Robert Barron, has again threatened Commonweal magazine over an article that questioned how Barron and his organization have engaged with former President Donald Trump's political movement.
After Harrison Butker, outspoken Catholic and kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, delivered a controversial commencement speech, Madison Chastain suggests he take his own oft-delivered advice and stay in his own lane.
Confirmation is not itself a test, writes Jim McDermott. It is a liturgy, a moment in which we ask the Holy Spirit to come down and fill the hearts of the confirmands.
After Harrison Butker, outspoken Catholic and kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, delivered a controversial commencement speech, Madison Chastain suggests he take his own oft-delivered advice and stay in his own lane.
Pope Francis expressed firm opposition to the idea of ordaining Catholic women as deacons in a new U.S. television interview, raising doubts that the ongoing three-year synodal process could move forward on the issue.
The pope spoke with CBS journalist Norah O'Donnell April 24 at his residence, Casa Santa Marta. A roughly 13-minute portion of the interview aired May 19 on the newsmagazine "60 Minutes," with the balance of the session being broadcast in a one-hour primetime special May 20.
The Vatican-Vietnam joint working group held its first meeting since last year's important agreement allowing for a papal representative to reside in Vietnam and the establishment of an office there to support Vietnam's estimated 6.5 million Catholics.
Climate change presents the world with "a road to death," Pope Francis said in a CBS interview. He affirmed that protecting the planet is a top global priority and chastised global warming deniers as "foolish people."
A decades-old landslide that’s rapidly accelerating has forced the dismantling of Wayfarers Chapel, an iconic Southern California church that was designed by one of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's sons and built among soaring redwoods and sweeping Pacific Ocean views.
Approximately 46 million Americans don't have regular access to clean water. On April 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standards to protect Americans from exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals."
How can contemplation help us cultivate that interior peace that can be the foundation for right-relationship with ourselves, our God and each other, including creation?
Matthew Cressler's vision for an accessible throughway to the nation's thorny history of race and religion has resulted in a uniquely modern initiative.
Aubrey Gordon is a self-proclaimed "fact acceptance activist" and the subject of a new documentary, "Your Fat Friend." Her philosophy, says reviewer Liz Charlotte Grant, aligns with the words of Scripture.
"Teilhard: Visionary Scientist," which debuts on Maryland PBS May 19, creates "the portrait of a man who was at once prophet, priest, Jesuit, scientist and mystic," writes Sr. Rose Pacatte.
The Icon Museum and Study Center is a U.S. museum devoted to icons and Eastern Christian art. Walking through the galleries spread over three levels was as much a prayerful experience as an aesthetic one.
Sr. Marjory Mwansa, a physiotherapist administrator at St. John Paul II Mission Orthopaedic Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, said the state-of-the-art medical facility is a beacon of hope for children with disabilities.
At their hospital in a remote rural area of Chibombo district, the Daughters of the Redeemer began noticing increased cholera cases when people returned from trips to Lusaka, the epicenter of the disease in Zambia.
The Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, who co-founded and co-sponsor Benedictine College, have joined the chorus of voices denouncing remarks made by commencement speaker Harrison Butker.
Trusting the energy of the adventure, I encountered the Holy Spirit "renewing the face of the Earth," teaching us how to live sustainably with the billions of years of development found in soil, sea and stars.
