As early as the 1830s, Catholic missionaries fanned out across the region to teach Christianity to the Native tribes long before Spokane’s founding. Many of those priests were from the Society of ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged Christians to deepen their common witness by growing in “ecumenical synodal practices,” ...

John L. Allen Jr., the fastidious American journalist who demystified Vatican affairs for English speakers for decades, died ...

Guarding human faces and voices, therefore, means guarding this seal, this indelible reflection of God's love. We are not a ...

(RNS) — From the end of the 20th century until his death, Allen was essential reading for anyone who cared about the inner ...

Laurent Salomé stood outside St. Louis Cathedral late Friday morning, still digesting all that he had seen inside perhaps New ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago tells NPR's Scott Simon why he and two other Catholic cardinals released a statement critical of the Trump administration's foreign policy.

In a world where reporters cover the Vatican more like a political state rather than a religious institution, John occupied a ...