The television series about an urban Catholic church was groundbreaking, and there has been nothing like it since.

The challenges notwithstanding, Joseph Caldwell presents his life as a Catholic as a gift.

Isabel Allende's novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.

The show's extreme makeover casts something of a spell but it comes off more and more like a self-serious period piece with some kicking tunes.

Smiles have been plentiful at St. Ethelreda since Jan. 29, when the Big Shoulders Fund and the Archdiocese of Chicago announced a partnership that will inject more than $92 million into 30 Catholic schools.

I had traveled to Iraq to hear more about how this man had survived, a Catholic priest rescued by his Muslim friend. He would tell me that story, too.

While Democrats have been able to eke out victories in previous elections by relying on ever-winnowing slivers of the religious vote, the exodus of white Christians from their ranks may be harder to ignore this year.

The project is poised to utilize the energy of young Catholics, many of whom are deeply concerned about the threats that climate change poses to the planet and, by extension, to human dignity.

Some Jewish groups and historians have said Pius, who was pope from 1939-1958, stayed silent during the Holocaust and didn't do enough to save lives.

The deaths of three siblings and their cousin -- killed as they were walking to get ice cream -- led to stories of faith and forgiveness that "stunned the world," a priest said at their funeral.

Three former students at a school for the deaf in Argentina traveled to Rome to demand Pope Francis and Vatican officials release records on priests who abused them and other students.

If we give the signal—our readiness, our openness—God lifts us up.

The Amazon synod wrought three significant changes in the Catholic Church's way of proceeding.

Klobuchar has underscored her abortion-rights support, and she's signed onto legislation that would limit states' efforts to constrain abortion access, such as the multiple state-level anti-abortion laws that passed last year.

The apostolic exhortation “Querida Amazonia,” conveys the suffering of the Amazon and its people in stark terms, writes Vincent J. Miller. We must not be distracted from its message.

Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. human rights chief, called on Syria and its allies to permit safe humanitarian corridors to be set up in the conflict areas.

This week on the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, the hosts take a deep dive into “Querida Amazonia.”

I could list all his scientific work, his writings on faith and science, his honors and degrees. But none of those are George.

How a tiny U.S. Post Office in Ossining, N.Y., became the site of a caper for the ages.