In an Oct. 24 decree, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs that ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, has issued a decree prohibiting certain hymns due to theological error ...

While some media reported a move at the Synod of Bishops to allow every national bishops’ conference to make Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said that was not ...

Raised Presbyterian, Dulles considered himself an agnostic when he arrived at Harvard but found himself drawn more and more to Catholicism, and was received into the Catholic Church in the fall of ...

The hymns came from the ecumenical ... the world needs us to be faithful to our common mission.” Pope Francis and Synod on Synodality participants, including non-Catholic delegates, pray ...

Halfway through the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis wrote, participants wanted to “express our shame at the scandal of division among Christians, the scandal of our failure to bear common witness ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – In a continent where polygamy is common, Catholic bishops in Africa are seeking both pastoral and theological ways to address such relationships. Speaking at the Synod on ...

“There is this common idea that, in the Catholic world, you can be seen negatively for wanting to build a big business; and in the business world, you can be seen negatively for being Catholic.

The violence has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent victims, he said, but it also “struck a profound blow to the common feeling ... “Our Catholic faith teaches us to hope even amidst ...

Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 17, a unique event hosted by the Archdiocese of New York to support regional Catholic charities. In past election cycles, somewhat striking photos have emerged ...

On August 2, the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) chose the song "Demos el primer paso" as an official hymn for the visit ... by the organization United Catholic Musicians of Colombia ...

In the 18th century, philosopher James Beattie compiled a list of 17 common-sense beliefs. A few are incontrovertible: “I exist”; “A whole is greater than a part”; “Virtue and vice are ...