VATICAN CITY — When Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI published his first encyclical, he chose an everlasting topic: love. “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him,” he ...

Oct. 15 is the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, when the Catholic Church remembers the Spanish Carmelite reformer and doctor of the Church whose life of prayer serves as an example for many Catholics ...

I call upon all educational institutions to inaugurate a new season that speaks to the hearts of the younger generations, ...

Pope Francis said Sunday that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including the gay community, and that it has a duty to accompany them on a personal path of spirituality but within the framework ...

American Catholics with leaders more focused on politics and culture wars have been comfortable ignoring church teachings on the importance of helping the poor and displaced.

A decade of planning, fundraising, and building will come to fruition on July 29 as St. Mary’s Catholic Center, which serves Catholic students of the public Texas A&M University in College Station, ...