In his new book, “A Short History of the Roman Mass,” Father Michael Lang, a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and professor of theology, offers a detailed and accessible overview of the ...

The Catholic Church is an ancient institution that has been a major fixture of European and global religion and politics for many centuries. Today, it is estimated that there are around 1.39 billion ...

The Catholic Church is celebrating 150 years of ministry in Oklahoma with two sesquicentennial Masses, at St. Gregory's Abbey, and the Rother shrine ...

Two hundred sixty-six popes have led the Roman Catholic Church since Jesus of Nazareth founded it around A.D. 33. But how did they get the job? And what did it lead them to do? Many of the answers are ...

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope ...

The upcoming conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis will be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church, with 133 cardinal electors expected to gather in the Sistine Chapel on May 7, ...