The papacy is the last of Europe's Renaissance courts, a system that makes courtiers of the cardinals and straight talk a rare experience. And so, when Pope John Paul II summoned his cardinals to Rome ...

Editor's note: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, spoke Jan. 25 at this year's annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, which brings together Catholic activists from ...

“We become human at the point of many spears.” A terrifying image put to words by Richard Wrangham, a professor of biological anthropology, describing the pitiless justice that communities inflict on ...

On Sunday, Jan. 4, during the Angelus prayer, Pope Leo XIV expressed his concern about the situation in the country and ...

When Cardinal Robert McElroy, the bishop of San Diego, proposed in a recent America essay that the church’s ongoing synodal process demonstrates a need to be more welcoming of women and L.G.B.T.

NEW YORK — More than 1,000 Catholics have signed an open letter in protest of Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s phone call with President Donald Trump and a follow-up interview on Fox News, labeling the ...

Pope Francis was secretly taped during a phone call with one of his cardinals, it emerged during an on-going financial trial at the Vatican on Thursday. A Vatican court heard the audio recording ...