If the purpose of the Catholic Church's canon law really is to promote people's salvation, as the law itself asserts, then its application must be primarily pastoral and aimed at promoting ...

Representatives of the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue in the United States met Dec. 4-7 at St. Paul’s College to finalize a text on the long-awaited study of koinonia, or communion. The extensive study is ...

At St. Peter Catholic Church in Fort Yates, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, there is a buffalo skull next to the tabernacle. When I researched why, I learned that all Catholic ...

Some of the most resonant and memorable phrases of Vatican II come from “Lumen Gentium,” including the description of the ...

Many conservative Catholics are upset with Pope Francis, who they complain is changing church doctrine, but they hardly blinked when Pope Benedict XVI got rid of Limbo, a Catholic doctrine that had ...

Intra-Catholic debate on the use of certain Marian titles has continued after the Vatican issued guidance encouraging limits on their use.