As issues like abortion, assisted suicide and in-vitro fertilization continue to be widely discussed today, looking back on the prescient writing of St. John Paul II on such matters can help the faith ...

• Camosy: As you say, the encyclical itself was motivated in part by concern for new threats to human life that were emerging ...

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

Over time, Popes ruled vast territories known as the Papal States, turning the Church into a political powerhouse. However, the papacy was not without turmoil. The Great Schism (1054) permanently ...

A network of survivors of Catholic clergy sex abuse has announced a database of cardinals’ records on how they have handled ...

The Israeli Embassy to the Holy See has hit back against Pope Francis’s condemnation Sunday of the resumption of “heavy ...

Signs of the times. Trump’s second term could reshape not only U.S. institutions but the Catholic Church itself—at home and ...

Stable medical situation: the pneumonia is slowly regressing, but the clinical picture remains very complex. For four weeks, ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

And yet Francis’ critics often complain that he’s authoritarian, that he takes decisions in a vacuum and without regard to ...

Becoming an embryo and attaching and forming a fetus is evidence that there is a new individual that is “on the path.” This ...