Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor, signals Catholic education is priority

Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the ...

Would-be robbers again stage ambush outside Catholic church in Minneapolis, police say

For the second time in two weeks, would-be robbers targeted people outside a Catholic church in south Minneapolis, police said Monday. Three suspects, possibly juveniles, ambushed their victims early ...

‘A hope dealer’: Attendance surges at Catholic churches in Connecticut, Archdiocese says

People are returning in droves to the Catholic Church in Connecticut, reversing a decades-long decline as particularly younger people search for deeper meaning and peace in a divisive world, priests ...

Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

Pope Leo XIV is urging Catholic teachers to focus less on pre-professional outcomes and more on educating students to have ...

Who were the Cathars? Inside the religious group that dared to challenge the Catholic Church

In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.