U.S. bishops attend Mass on Nov. 14, 2022, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore at the start of their 2022 fall plenary assembly. (OSV ...

The English and German editions of "The Name of God Is Mercy" are pictured in Rome Jan. 12. The book is compiled from an interview Pope Francis did with Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli. At right ...

The head of the Vatican's doctrinal office has reaffirmed the Catholic Church's ban on the ordination of women as priests, writing in a new article that the teaching has a "definitive character" and ...

Decentralizing doctrinal authority, or deciding certain doctrinal questions at local levels rather than universally, has been seen as a pivotal step for those aiming to make dramatic changes to ...

VATICAN CITY— Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more ...

J.I. Packer says the doctrine of the Trinity “confronts us with perhaps the most difficult thought that the human mind has ...

Last summer, Damon Linker, a Catholic, made a prediction that Bergoglio pontificate would be all about a change in style, but would barely touch doctrinal reform, if it touched it at all — and that ...

This week, I am in Warsaw for a conference on Catholic social teaching. At last year’s event, the following paper by Msgr. John Strynkowski, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, set the stage for the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A state Republican lawmaker is proposing legislation that would ban teaching Tennessee public school students "religious doctrine" until they're in high school. The Tennessean ...

Editor’s Note: Nicholas Opiyo is a human rights and constitutional lawyer and the founding Executive Director of Chapter Four Uganda, a civil liberties organization based in Kampala. He is the former ...