In this undated photo, G.K. Chesterton, left, receives an honorary degree from Holy Cross Father Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., then president of the University of Notre Dame (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, ...

Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism as an old and faded thing, a vision of the future that belonged to ...

As a document, it hardly carried the gravitas of Martin Luther’s Theses pinned to the door of the Wittenberg church. But when a British Foreign Office memo that lampooned Pope Benedict XVI was leaked ...

The installation of the new bishop of Hexham and Newcastle in the northeast of England was very different from the usual ceremonies to inaugurate bishops. It included a moment, without obvious ...

Prominent British Catholics have voiced grave concern about new government-backed legislation that will require Christian clergy to report information obtained during confessions about sexual abuse.

As English Catholics commemorate their church's Victorian-era restitution, some are asking whether their country should also atone for past anti-Catholic cruelties. "From the Reformation onwards, the ...