To understand why, read the Gospel for today from the beginning of Mark chapter seven, in which Jesus and the Pharisees find themselves in a debate over intra-Jewish faith questions. Catholic media is ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops plans to devote part of its national meeting next month to the sensitive issue of which Catholics are worthy of receiving Communion, despite calls for a delay.

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, a Chicago ...