In the 2024 election, US Catholics voted in large numbers for Donald Trump. It’s far from inevitable that Catholics find ...

The nightly news leads with stories about gun violence, protests against the Supreme Court's anticipated overturning of Roe v. Wade, and gay pride celebrations. But polls indicate that Americans' top ...

The Vatican released a new policy consolidating the investment portfolios of all offices and keeping all current and future investments in line with the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. The new ...

Sister Helen Alford, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. (Credit: Dominican Sisters UK ...

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 ...

The famed Benedictine monastery in Camaldoli, Italy. (Credit: Vatican News.) Listen ROME – At the end of the 2007 movie “Charley Wilson’s War,” about how covert American support for the mujahadeen in ...

The new pope has taken a name that recalls Pope Leo XIII, who wrote the outline for modern Catholic social justice teaching. Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. Pope Leo XIII, the leader of ...

This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley discuss a, if not the, big question hanging over the synod: Can it change church teaching? They unpack the place of authority, doctrinal development and the ...

The U.S. bishops have approved an updated version of their guiding document on Catholic health care, with substantial ...