The Immaculate Heart Sisters of Mary (IHMs) has a long history of pushing back on Catholic church norms and many of those ...

The Church can sometimes seem fractured. The Catholic Church is a big tent. That is one of its core strengths: the fact that ...

In her new book, Melanie McDonagh gives us a rollicking account of a group of highly talented writers and artists as they ...

The pope’s latest symbolic rebuke to the president is appointing a Salvadoran who entered the country as an undocumented ...

His appointments of bishops have focused on pastoral care and reflect the changing composition of Catholic pews and priests.

HDS Professor Raúl Zegarra joins The Harvard Religion Beat to explore and analyze Pope Leo's first year as leader of the ...

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story of New England begins in a region that ...

I n 1633, Galileo Galilei stood in the convent of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome, where a tribunal of Catholic authorities forced him to “abjure, curse, and detest” his belief that the ...

WASHINGTON — Arthur Brooks, author, popular speaker, podcast host and Harvard professor, who is also a devout Catholic, has built a successful career on what he calls the “science of happiness.” He ...

The taxpayer-funded event is hosting religious speakers who trashed Pope Leo’s words as “pious blather” and claimed Muslims ...

Artificial intelligence and extreme individualism are reshaping humanity’s understanding of meaning, morality, and faith ...