Pope Francis called again for "an immediate cease-fire on all fronts" in the Middle East, urging leaders to "pursue the paths ...

In the first poll focused exclusively on Catholics in swing states, NCR found that voters saw the economy as the most ...

Three U.S. cardinals who met with Pope Francis aren't saying what was on the agenda. A likely topic, writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters, is the need to fill the many vacancies in U.S. metropolitan ...

At a key Vatican synod forum, canon law professor Donata Horak urged the church to abandon its monarchical model, advocating ...

The study of theology in Africa has been male-dominated, left only to those interested in the priesthood. But the Hilton-Hekima Sisters Scholars Program is changing that for religious and laypersons.