The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create ...

In her address to the Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology at Trinity College Dublin, Professor Soskice ...

COMMENTARY: At stake is more than health coverage — the Little Sisters’ case highlights a broader battle over conscience ...

Leo XIV begins his papacy with a historic opportunity to close the growing gap between what the church teaches about sex and ...

As in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues to make headlines, the status of the many embryos created and frozen in this process is a key concern for ...

It explicitly denied any legitimate teaching authority to episcopal conferences themselves; this restriction was popularly perceived as a necessary guarantee of the unity of Catholic faith and morals.

But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more fundamental: the way the Church determines its doctrine altogether.Grounded in a contested ...

While Anne Thompson's Feb. 26 op-ed column addressed the interesting issue of whether Catholic doctrine (more specifically Justice Antonin Scalia's view of that doctrine) supports capital ...

Pope Francis has once again caused controversy with his new pick to lead the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s investigative and doctrinal office. The Vatican officially ...

Senior Catholic leaders meeting at the Vatican are deep into passionate debates about how the church can respond to the realities of modern family life, yet at the same time they have repeatedly ...