The Vatican has detailed how to obtain plenary indulgences — removing temporal punishment for sin through Christ’s merits — ...

Does the Holy See possess one of the world’s best intelligence services, and has it always been so? Every week, La Croix’s ...

Recently released documents reveal how Ireland struggled to find homes for two moon rock displays gifted by the U.S.

Looking back over the last 12 months on the Vatican beat, it’s tempting to call 2024 “tumultuous” — tempting, that is, but ...

NCR's 10 most-read news stories of 2024 include priests excommunicated for questioning the authority of Pope Francis, a ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

President Joe Biden awarded gay marriage and abortion activists with Presidential Citizens Medals Thursday. Mary Bonauto, an ...

It’s telling that in this present moment of the Church, we are divided over the essential means of our communion.

I mean stories which were important but which didn’t generate a lot of buzz, either in the mainstream media or the ...

The effort to canonize Sister Blandina Segale has crossed a significant hurdle, after years of research were approved by a ...

After news of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kristina Hook’s thoughts immediately went to her many friends ...