He designed a website to catalog miracles. In other words, he’s a modern saint. As young people leave the Catholic Church in droves, there’s perhaps no one more relevant than the first ...

Following the overtly anti-capitalist papacy of Pope Francis, one asks if Pope Leo XIV will follow his predecessor or steer ...

Over time, hostility to modern ideas ... the Church boosted Christian Democratic parties in Italy, France, and Germany; endorsed an independence movement led by the Catholic Léopold Senghor ...

There may be a way to satisfy both sides. Two recent books analyze the role of the Catholic Church in light of modern times. One is from a Catholic author who leans right politically, the other ...

The greatest test in the history of the modern Catholic Church began at ... was to long outlast Napoleon. Until France’s laïcité law separating church and state would come into effect in ...

Like any modern Catholic official, Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of France’s Catholic bishops’ conference, realizes clergy sexual abuse is a systemic problem, one that calls for ...

The church is kind of moving toward the Global South, and France has certainly ... of religion in the modern world. Father James Martin is one of the most famous Catholic priests in the United ...

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...