The lecture examines the long and tangled modern history of Catholicism and democracy, with one eye toward its implications for the study of global history and another toward our understanding of the ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When Nick Chancey was a boy in West Virginia, he didn’t have much time for Christianity. He spent the ...

There have been many articles written about President Joe Biden’s Catholic faith. And understandably so—Mr. Biden has made his Catholic faith a central talking point of his campaign and ...

Critics of Pope Francis’s views on immigration are sidestepping a long-standing Catholic tradition—while claiming to uphold ...

On this Jubilee Year of Hope-themed episode of “,” Zac and Ashley chat with Father Ramil Fajardo, a tribunal judge in the ...

A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

There are few buildings in New York City that have witnessed more Irish American history than Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on ...