(RNS) — Without the Eucharist, it seems obvious: There is no Catholic Church. It feeds us as a community of believers and transforms us into the body of Christ active in the world today. But according ...

Where Francis sees rigid ideology replacing faith in the conservative American Catholic hierarchy, his critics see a struggle to preserve traditions and teachings they saw as settled. By Ruth Graham ...

A young Nigerian man has opened up about his unfulfilled aspiration to become a priest in the Catholic church According to him, he would have been ordained a Catholic priest in 2025 if a reverend ...

In a 10,000-word pastoral letter last month, the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Spain detailed the reasons why they hope the Rightists will win the Civil War (TIME, Sept. 13). To Spain’s Bishops this ...