(The Conversation) — For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and professors from Munich and Hamburg formed a resistance ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

Speaking to the Sunday Tribune from there, Napier said he and Pope Francis were made cardinals at the same time by Pope John ...

World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. Despite the ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...

During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, especially in Brazil.

The church was one of many in the Philippines, the largest Roman Catholic nation in Asia ... expressed condolences on social ...

A devoted Catholic is seen in shocking images pinned to a cross after being 'crucified' on Good Friday – for the 36th time.

COMMENTARY: The fourth of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reflects the mystery at the heart of the Nicene Creed — a suffering God who prays Psalm 22 and transforms our ...

In his written homily, Pope Francis reflected on Simon of Cyrene, the man forced by Roman soldiers to carry the cross behind Jesus. Simon, the pope said, did not speak but simply acted, and in doing ...