Catholicism

It's here - the day of reckoning for the most bitter, acrimonious, controversial election in recent memory. But not, it might be a relief to know, in…

November 29, 1964 is known in the Catholic Church as “the day Mass changed.” It didn’t take a day – more like five years - but by 1969 the vernacular “New…

A new study finds that while Americans overall are a religious bunch compared to people in other developed countries. Among U.S. women, that commitment is…

By 9 a.m. Saturday, the chairs inside the chapel at Mount Calvary Mausoleum were nearly full as Bishop Peter Libasci of Manchester opened the morning’s…

Since his selection, there’s been intense interest in Pope Francis’s leadership, among Catholics and non-Catholics. And that interest is growing, as he…

A radical event took place Saturday in a most traditional setting: a tiny, white, classic New England church in Shelburne. Mary Catherine White was…

A former top Manchester diocese official has been ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to the church and other organizations in a plea…

Last March, the election of Pope Francis was announced with a billow of white smoke. Nine months later, the media remain in a papal haze. Time Magazine…

Pope Benedict the 16th stunned the Catholic world in February by announcing his retirement: the first papal resignation in 700 years. And since the…

Yesterday, Pope Francis gave a spontaneous and startling frank press conference on a plane ride following his week-long trip to Brazil. In response to a…