As I write this column, I am on the plane returning home to Boston from Rome and the funeral of Pope Francis. By the time ...

Leaving a seaside town, I nearly took the wrong path until an old man in a beret -- like the 19th-century Catholic Carlists -- called out. He pointed to the coastal route.

Pope Francis was, without question, the most important and most influential religious and theological figure of the 21st century, not just for Roman Catholics, not just for Christians, but for Jews as ...

The month of May brings many things: flowers and other signs of spring, graduation season for many high schools and universities, and, in the Catholic Church, ...

In the Diocese of Yendi in northern Ghana, missionaries are working to educate people about the acceptance of children born with disabilities. In the minds of some people who hold traditional beliefs, ...

One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable...You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

As the official days of mourning -- the Novemdiales -- have begun with the April 26 funeral of Pope Francis, 135 cardinal electors are engaging in pre-conclave meetings at the Vatican. T ...

La., suggested April 29 the budget blueprint President Donald Trump calls "one big, beautiful bill" could be used as a vehicle to "redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified ...

Throngs of multicolored flowers decorated the altar steps of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on the night of April 25, highlighting the Easter joy of the Risen Lord. To the side, an unexpect ...

On the evening of April 23, Maureen Noyse went to her home parish of St. Theresa of Avila in West Roxbury to pray for ...

Kimberly Auger was in Pompeii when the news broke. It was the morning of April 21, and Auger, a parishioner at Immaculate Conception in Everett, was on vacation in Italy with a group of ...

Mission is at the heart of Caroline Stanfill's life. Among her many jobs, she's worked in special education; for religious sisters; within the diocesan office of social ministries; and a ...