Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

SINCE the Second Vatican Council — which took place from 1962 to 1965 with the aim of updating the Catholic Church and making ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The Syracuse football team announced the signing of one player on National Signing Day as running back ...

The first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Served as chief theological adviser to Pope John Paul II. As dean of the College of Cardinals, it was his duty to call the cardinals to Rome for ...

Surprisingly to some, these anniversaries are related in several ways, not the least of which is the person and history of Pope St. John XXIII. This is a story worth knowing and telling.

Pope John XXIII has been less enthusiastic about Father Lombardi’s kind of evangelism. In recent years the institute’s big missionary projects have been quietly shelved and its sleek modern ...

In a letter to American bishops, Francis leveled unusually direct criticism at the administration on an issue he has made ...

“I always say that we lived in a golden age and didn’t know it!” But that changed radically after Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council. I was blessed to have Jesuit ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

As the Kennedy administration considered its response, with the threat of nuclear war looming, Pope John XXIII begged for peace in a public radio address, in a speech to Vatican ambassadors and ...

The Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex boys and girls basketball tournaments tip off this weekend. Phillipsburg claimed the No. 1 seed ...