Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a medieval historian, I study ways that community leaders used Catholic practices and institutions to respond to war and plague ...

Archbishop Jose Gomez said penance and purification is needed to rebuild the U.S. Catholic Church and respond to the abuse crisis. He stressed the importance of strong procedures and protocols for ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Most Americans these days know Advent as a sort of countdown to the Christmas-shopping deadline, fueled by Christmassy songs on the radio and in stores and punctuated by office parties and reminders ...

This vintage photograph is of a statue representing an allegory of the city of Paris imploring heaven to take away the plague during the 1846-1860 cholera pandemic. The woman in the center represents ...

Contrition is not a word heard often these days outside of Roman Catholicism. (Some conservative Catholics think it isn't heard often inside either.) Its Latin root is contritio, which means "a ...

Editor's Note: Jennie Davidson Latta, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge and Catholic parishioner in Memphis, sent this letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is republished here with her ...