Here are key things to know ahead of the Pope’s trip to Equatorial Guinea, which will be part of his 2026 visit to Africa.

Hays Catholic schools announced the death on Jan. 22 of alumnus John L. Allen Jr., 61, from cancer. Allen was a journalist ...

Pope Leo XIV has expressed interest in visiting Algeria, a trip that would mark the first papal visit to the North African nation and highlight its small but symbolically significant Catholic ...

The cardinal was baptized at the age of 9 by Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, a Nigerian priest known for his holiness, ...

He also affirmed that the truth “must enlighten every action” and be done in charity, the “great driving force that leads to ...

The pope said that no society can "live in peace and thrive without commonly held truths that inform its norms and values." ...

McAleese desribes baptism as a kind of recruitment tool that ignores how children, as they mature, should be able to freely decide their own religious identity, noting that canon law acknowledges no ...

Algorithms designed to maximize engagement on social media can lock people into "bubbles" of easy consensus and rage, weakening people's ability to listen and think critically, and increasing ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who presented themselves as white.