The Church's teaching on cohabitation is not an "arbitrary" rule. Living together before marriage is a sin because it violates God's commandments and the law of the Church. St.

The newly appointed bishop to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin promised to lead with unity and to speak up for the ...

V ATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a note released Monday (Nov. 25), Pope Francis reinforced that the final report issued by delegates to the recently ended Synod on Synodality constitutes church teaching.

A longtime Catholic school music teacher beloved by parents is out of a job, and he claims part of the reason is that he didn ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Pope, he took the name of Pope Leo XIV. Leo XIII authored Rerum Novarum, which is the ...

Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button ...

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell — ...

Colorado Catholics are mourning the passing of Pope Francis, including a few who actually stood in Rome’s St. Peter’s Square on Easter morning, when the pontiff made an appearance, never ...

Mark Richards taught at St. Francis Xavier for years. He says he is angry, especially because his husband died two years ago, ...

The latest work by renowned historian Diarmaid MacCulloch tackles Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries. Modern-day Christians who talk about traditional values usually don’t know how ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a note released Monday (Nov. 25), Pope Francis reinforced that the final report issued by delegates to the recently ended Synod on Synodality constitutes church teaching. ...